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1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
3 Our development blog is available at: http://planet.pidgin.im
5 2.5.3 (12/18/2008):
6 Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing
7 bugs. Enjoy!
9 Kevin: I didn't do much of anything this release, but Mark and
10 John must be commended for their tireless efforts to fix bugs
11 and approve patches, especially in areas of Pidgin that have
12 not usually received much attention. Lots of changes have
13 been made, so definitely check the ChangeLog to see what's new.
15 John: It feels like it's been an age or two since we last released,
16 and I think it's well worth the wait. Mark has sunk more time into
17 MSN and MySpace IM this release than any sane person should be
18 allowed to, and I've sunk more time into patches than I care to
19 admit. By my count, our ChangeLog has 58 bullet points(!) and we've
20 closed 85 tickets specifically for this release. Enjoy!
22 Ka-Hing: Bring your XMPP server to 2008 some time in 2009 would be
23 nice, DreamHost!
25 2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
26 Ethan: After a bit of a struggle with our services, which put
27 this release off for an unfortunate length of time, we're
28 ready for another bugfix release for your bug-free(er?)
29 messaging pleasure.
31 Sadrul: Despite our best efforts, this release got delayed by a
32 couple of weeks. But here it is! It is mostly a bug fix release, with
33 a couple of important fixes, e.g. fix for the Yahoo! disconnect
34 problem. Also, welcome our newest Crazy Patch Writer, Marcus Lundblad,
35 who, among various other fixes, has implemented custom smileys for the
36 XMPP protocol, included in this release. Enjoy!
38 Stu: I guess this is the time of year for server migrations, and
39 I've just about had enough of them. Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
40 and this release should be superb.
42 John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
43 lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
44 it to us. Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
45 release far longer than we expected. Hopefully the bugfixes make you
46 happy!
48 Elliott: This release took a while, but that was due to an unfortunate
49 server snafu. I didn't have much to do with it, but hopefully the new
50 servers will help us out a bit. Anyway, mostly bug-fixes this time.
51 Nothing spectacular, unless you happen to suffer from one of those bugs.
52 Oh, and don't forget, the "Has you" tooltip is back!
54 2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
55 Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release. It solves a few
56 known crashes and updates some of our artwork. Google's Summer of
57 code recently finished up. Some of our students are still working
58 on their branches and none have been merged into released code yet.
59 Look for some of those results to show up in Pidgin releases over the
60 coming months.
62 Elliott: I'm just commenting so Kevin wouldn't be the only one in NEWS
63 and no-one else seems to want to. Anyway, there's a couple MSN login
64 fixes, so try it out. The contact list problems might still be around,
65 but you can probably find a workaround in trac. And there's a tooltip
66 fix for our AIM friends, not that I had anything to do with it (except
67 closing many many duplicate tickets).
69 2.5.0 (08/17/2008):
70 Daniel: Lots of good stuff in this release. Lots of people have worked
71 very hard on the updated MSN protocol, and it's finally time to bring
72 it to the world! There are myriad bugfixes, including some important
73 ones so you should be sure to update.
75 Hylke: Finally MSNP15 support. To celebrate this I refreshed a lot of
76 the smilies used in the protocol and added the long awaited indispensable
77 bunny icon. I think this is one of those releases that will make a lot
78 of users happy, especially MSN users.
80 Elliott: Oh look, my first NEWS! Well anyway, with that new MSNP15
81 support, this release is set up to be a huge success and a total flop
82 all at the same time. Here's hoping it's the "huge success" one for you.
83 Those icon changes that Hylke made, while minor, really make things look
84 a little cleaner, I think. Oh yea, did I mention that MSNP15 stuff?
86 Mark: Speaking of MSNP15, we'd like to welcome Elliott Sales de Andrade
87 as a full fledged developer! He took the last few strides mushing the
88 new MSN code into shape. Then he decided that wasn't enough and started
89 doing other great stuff.
91 Ka-Hing: "Reject"ing a certificate after your account is signed off is
92 not recommended. Deleting the file after you start sending it is also
93 discouraged.
95 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
96 Richard: This release includes important bug fixes. I'm just cutting
97 the release. Thank you to the real heroes who did the fixing!
99 2.4.2 (5/17/2008):
100 Sadrul: We added some usability changes in this release, including the
101 typing notification, buddyicon and input area size in the conversation
102 windows, escape to close conversation windows etc. These changes should
103 make pidgin more usable and more fun for Everyone! *wink*
105 Stu: I fixed some memory leaks, but nothing like as many as Daniel did.
106 MSN buddy list synchronization should be significantly less painful now,
107 and opening MSN inboxes might work better too. SILC passphrase changes
108 and support for passphrase-less keys has been improved also.
110 2.4.1 (3/31/2008):
111 Stu: We fixed some bugs, this release should be 110% better than 2.4.0
113 John: Well, I didn't really do much this release except muck about with
114 the configure script. Blame me if it worked in 2.4.0 but doesn't now.
116 Will: We seem to be falling into a nice pattern of releasing on the last
117 day of a month. Hypothetical AIX users might be pleased to learn that
118 Pidgin might actually run for them now!
120 2.4.0 (2/29/2008):
121 John: While this release took what seems like forever to get out the
122 door, I think it's well worth the wait, especially for Yahoo! users.
123 This release serves up some fixes for long standing bugs and adds
124 file transfer for transfers with newer Yahoo! clients (finally!). As
125 is standard with code I committed, where it works great thank the
126 patch writer, and where it's broken, feel free to yell at me. Enjoy!
128 Sadrul: Finch is more colourful and blinky in this release! There's
129 now a log viewer, which is very useful, and also the ability to
130 block/unblock buddies. It's now also possible to find chat rooms on
131 many services, e.g. XMPP, IRC, Yahoo! etc. Happy Leap Day!
133 Ka-Hing: I think all I've done for this release is committing some
134 patches written by other people.
136 Stu: Finally, 2.4.0 lands. I didn't do all that much except complain
137 about things I didn't like or just revert Sean's changes. I'm quite
138 pleased with how well it's turned out in the end.
139 Happy Birthday Fred, you must be nearly 10 now ;-)
141 2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
142 Stu: I'm sorry for the MSN problems and the plugin crashes in 2.3.0.
143 Hopefully this will redeem us. This fixes a number of bugs. I'm a
144 bit late but I'd like to welcome John to the team. Enjoy!
146 Luke: I've done absolutely nothing in the last 2 weeks, except watch
147 others commit bug and, more, leak fixes. People should be noticing
148 remarkably fewer memory leaks now than 2 or more releases ago.
150 Kevin: I'm not quite sure what happened to our MySpaceIM Summer of
151 Code student, but I fixed a few MySpace bugs with idle and status.
152 I will try to fix some of the other more significant bugs, after I
153 figure out the protocol, especially including grouping issues.
155 2.3.0 (11/20/2007):
156 Luke: While this does not have the new MSN code, rest assured that
157 we are working on it and that it is nearing release. This contains
158 a significant number of fixes, including some that were marked as
159 fixed for earlier releases. Happy Thanksgiving!
161 John: This is my first NEWS entry! So, this time around we have an
162 updated man page (the old one hadn't been really updated since
163 before the GTK+ 2.0 migration!), lots of bug fixes, and some new
164 features for you all. Enjoy!
166 2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
167 Luke: Because the main branch of pidgin development is still not
168 ready for public consumption, I have taken some time to try to
169 pull the many bug fixes that have happened since then into a
170 separate branch. This release is the result of that effort.
172 2.2.1 (9/28/2007):
173 Richard: We have some new code in the pipeline, but it's not quite
174 ready for a general release. Instead, this is basically a bug fix
175 release.
177 Luke: Unfortunately the necessity of this bug fix release means
178 some of the tickets that have been closed as part of the 2.2.1
179 milestone are not actually fixed yet. We have grabbed as many
180 of the changes as we could while avoiding those that are as
181 yet unstable though, and this should still be a marked
182 improvement over 2.2.0. We have spent a lot of time since the
183 last release looking at the tickets that have been submitted
184 and many of them have been closed.
186 Stu: I haven't NEWS'd in a while. I haven't actually done much for
187 too long also, maybe I'll find some time soon. This release is
188 basically what 2.2.0 should have been - it actually compiles this
189 time.
191 2.2.0 (9/13/2007):
192 Sean: 2.2.0 contains the results of several major Google Summer
193 of Code branches bringing some new, extraordinary features. We
194 have a new protocol, MySpaceIM, a bunch of new features for an
195 existing protocol, XMPP, and nifty new certificate management
196 to make sure your IM server is who it says it is.
198 Ka-Hing: A number of you noticed crashes when dragging windows
199 around when certain options are enabled. Well, that was my fault,
200 and Sadrul fixed it. So Props to him and poos to me. I haven't
201 done much for this release, but the next one should contain
202 something that I helped work on. Hint: students are cheap slave
203 coders!
205 Kevin: I haven't really been coding much in Pidgin, and this
206 release is no exception, but I will be working on getting our
207 wonderful web site to be a little more functional by next
208 release. I promise!
210 2.1.1 (8/20/2007):
211 Sean: Continuing our schedule of frequent releases, Pidgin 2.1.1
212 is out. In it, we've addressed a lot of UI issues from our
213 experimental new changes introduced in 2.1.0, and gave a lot of
214 attention to Yahoo! and Bonjour. Thanks to everyone who
215 contributed.
217 Luke: We have reworked some parts of the conversation windows in
218 response to user comments. We did not quite reach 100 tickets
219 closed this release, so a fair few will role over again. Still,
220 we are slowly but surely working our way through the reported bugs.
221 Many thanks to everyone who has helped with tracking down the
222 various issues, testing fixes, and getting patches in.
224 Tim: Sean finally got me to fix some of the buddy list bugs with
225 Yahoo! when in version 15 mode. So now we have some Yahoo! to
226 MSN support, which is kind of nice. Looks like some others have
227 been contributing to Yahoo! while I've been AWOL, so many thanks
228 to them.
230 2.1.0 (7/28/2007):
231 Sean: This release took a bit longer than 3 weeks, but boy is it
232 worth it! We're beginning to experiment with new UI concepts and
233 this release features a largely re-designed conversation window.
234 We've closed 150 tickets for this release; much thanks go to all
235 the developers, translators, and testers who made this possible.
237 Ka-Hing: Sean said no one else NEWS'ed, so I figure I should.
239 2.0.2 (6/14/2007):
240 Sean: Another big maintenance release. Again, about 100 tickets were
241 resolved in this release, and they keep coming in. Lots of bug fixes,
242 some minor icon adjustements, hopefully we addressed some ICQ
243 internationalization issues, and support for Bonjour on Windows!
244 Our next release will be 2.1.0, and will come with some great new
245 features.
247 Stu: I think we're gradually getting the hang of this 3 week thing
248 again. This release includes yet more bug fixes. I'd also like to
249 specifically thank Pekka Riikonen for the patch to enable using SILC
250 Toolkit 1.1 with Pidgin/libpurple that is included in this release.
252 2.0.1 (5/24/2007):
253 Sean: 2.0.1! Three weeks later, as scheduled! It is so nice to have
254 regular, frequent, releases again! This is a bugfix release; We have
255 fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im.
256 Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release
257 in another three weeks!
259 Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this. I don't know how you users find so many
260 things for us to fix. 24 hours in a day (sadly). 24 is divisible by the
261 sum of its digits and by their product. It is the smallest composite
262 number, the product of whose divisors is a cube.
264 Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have!
265 Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been
266 submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should
267 all have a much more stable experience with this release. I also
268 want to thank the many users who have resubmitted their reports
269 as we close out the old Source Forge bug tracker. If all goes well,
270 your report will get the attention it deserves as we continue to
271 work on Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple.
273 Nathan: A ton of fixes have gone into this release. The feedback
274 we've gotten on 2.0.0 has been incredible. Hopefully we've resolved
275 most of the critical issues with 2.0.1. If we haven't, I'm sure
276 our wonderful users will let us hear about it. I seem to be
277 forgetting something...oh, right, I haven't promised any cool new
278 features in the next release! So, I promise at least one cool new
279 feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your
280 definition of 'cool' to get it.
282 Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus
283 API functions. I also removed a couple of the preferences from the
284 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people
285 for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem. The removed
286 preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway.
288 2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
289 Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm
290 really proud of all the work we've all done. I'm pumped. And, while
291 I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since
292 1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular,
293 rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal
294 quandries. Huge thanks to everyone involved.
296 Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly
297 but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration. No one regrets more
298 than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release.
299 But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal
300 state. There were many tough calls to be made in the last 2 years.
301 Not everyone has agreed with the resulting decisions, that is un-
302 fortunate, but unavoidable. Suffice it to say that despite what
303 some users appear to think, a ton of thought, argument, discussion,
304 and experimentation has gone into this release. This release
305 builds on many years of experience, both as developers writing the
306 code, users using it, and in supporting other users. I hope that
307 those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and
308 attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions.
310 Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except
311 this is hardly one small step. A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0
312 than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole
313 new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born,
314 and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library
315 powering the greatest IM clients around. Bugs were fixed and
316 features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last
317 major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature
318 creep. As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into
319 Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part.
321 Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0. It's been a long time coming,
322 but there's a great deal of goodness here. When I say a long time, I'm
323 not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus"
324 (aka 1.x). The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a
325 number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning
326 and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development
327 period). 2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also
328 the first deficient number (oh well). There are only 10 types of people
329 in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not.
330 Enjoy!
332 Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and
333 I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule.
334 Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things
335 where they are today. Congratulations everyone!
337 Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally
338 released!! And it's *really* very good!!! Give your soul a break ...
339 Use Pidgin!
341 Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth
342 due to the delays in getting this beast out. I'm really happy that it
343 is done. I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is
344 far more stable, packed with useful features and, dare I say, prettier
345 than any previous release.
347 2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007):
348 Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For
349 starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new
350 logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions
351 below, we're totally back in the open now, having a signed agreement
352 from AOL that puts us in the clear. We all really regret having to go
353 completely dark for so long. Anyway, unlike betas1-6, which were of
354 normal release quality, this one is actually beta quality. There are
355 a few significant known issues, and a lot of changes that need a lot
356 of real-world testing. So, if you'd like to help us out, give it a
357 whirl, and let us know if you run into any major issues.
359 Nathan: So, the secret is out now. We renamed to Pidgin. I'd just
360 like to apologize to everyone we've had to keep in the dark for the
361 last however-many months. I know it looked like development slowed
362 to a crawl, but in reality we've been working pretty hard to get
363 2.0.0 out the door, without getting into any legal trouble. I
364 realize that if we were some big corporation, we'd be getting flamed
365 about this secrecy for months. Please try to remember that we're
366 just a bunch of geeks who were scared of legal stuff (well, at least
367 I was. Scared, that is). The bottom line is that we're out in the
368 open again, and fully plan to stay that way. We're also opening up
369 the mail archives from the secretive past few months. You can scan
370 through them if you want, or I can summarize. "Are the lawyers done
371 yet? No. Now? No. How about now? No." All lawyer jokes aside,
372 I'm grateful to our legal team for crossing all the 't's and dotting
373 all the lowercase 'j's to get us the deal we got. Anyways, thanks
374 for your patience, and on to 2.0.1!
376 Gary: Well my silence, and our silence has ended. Finally the name
377 change is over and done with and we can go back to a normal dev
378 cycle. Now if I can just get myself back onto a normal dev cycle,
379 but that's another story all together.
381 Ethan: Not to be too "me-too", but I have to say that I'm really
382 excited about the project's new name and identity, and glad to be
383 out of the legal mess. We're pushing beta 7 with all of the
384 branding and organizational changes that have been going on for
385 the last few months, so there are likely to be some snags --
386 please help us out by trying beta 7, searching for any bugs you
387 find in the bug tracker at http://developer.pidgin.im/, and
388 documenting them if they are unknown or you can provide new
389 information. Help us make 2.0.0 final a release to be remembered
390 (in a good way)! I'd like to give huge thanks to all of the
391 developers, our steadfast supporters, the crazy patch writers, and
392 everyone else who has made this transition to Pidgin possible, and
393 the improvements that go along with it. I'd like to extend a
394 special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues
395 and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one
396 wants to deal with.
398 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2007):
399 Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be
400 the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI
401 changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other
402 goodness.
404 Nathan: Beta6 rocks. That is all.
406 Gary: Long time no news. My silence will end soon ;)
408 Evan: My first news! I knocked out a nice collection of crashes,
409 thanks in part to my ever-patient Adium beta testers. Gaim 2.0.0
410 is going to be delicious. :)
412 2.0.0beta5 (11/9/2006):
413 Sean: Another release in our endless stream in betas. This one's
414 pretty awesome; and it fixes major bugs introduced in previous
415 ones.
417 2.0.0beta4 (10/17/2006)
418 Sean: Still beta. Maybe the next one should be a gamma.. :)
420 Daniel: I'm super chuffed to announce that this will work with newer
421 (i.e. >= 2.8.0) versions of GTK+ on Windows.
423 Luke: Several significant changes in this one, including no longer
424 using libao for sound! There are no doubt bugs here, but hopefully
425 nothing major.
427 Nathan: I don't have much to say, but yay for another beta!
429 Etan: I did a bunch of perl work for this beta again, there is now
430 some support for perl scripts to call functions in the gtk ui, it
431 still needs work.
433 2.0.0beta3 (03/25/2006):
434 Mark: Yeah, I know, another beta. Don't worry, we'll get this
435 puppy out the door eventually.
437 2.0.0beta2 (01/24/2006):
438 Mark: So this is the new year, and I don't feel any different, but
439 Gaim is getting better. We hope this will be our last beta before
440 we release the final version of 2.0.0. As before, please shower us
441 in feedback!
443 Richard: I'm proud to say a lot of bugs have been squashed in this
444 version. If you filed a bug against beta1, please test to see if
445 it's fixed now and update your bug report accordingly (by either
446 closing it or setting the version to 2.0.0beta2). I'm also looking
447 for someone who uses Gaim on MacOS X to test a patch for me before
448 I can commit it. See http://gaim.sf.net/contactinfo.php for my
449 contact information.
451 Etan: So I did a bunch of work on the perl plugin since beta1, so
452 anyone who uses perl plugins would do well to expect some things to
453 need updating (I'm not certain everything works yet, so please send me
454 any reports of things that don't). Most of the work was correcting
455 some namespace issues, but I also improved the support for perl
456 plugins having plugin_pref frames, and plugin actions. Multiple perl
457 plugins can now have plugin_pref frames at the same time, and every
458 perl plugin can have multiple plugin actions now. Like Mark said
459 above, let us know how this beta works out.
461 2.0.0beta1 (12/17/2005):
462 Sean: I think Nathan sums everything up really well below. There's still
463 a bunch we want to add (and remove) before the official release, but we
464 really want to start getting feedback about what's good and what's not.
465 So, please, be vocal about this beta!
467 Nathan: 15 months since we branched oldstatus, and started working on
468 the behemoth that is 2.0.0. In that time, we've added a couple new
469 protocols, we had a few crazy patch writers become developers, and
470 had a few more people step up to be crazy patch writers. Sean wrote
471 a book, and we arbitrarily decided to make a version 1.0.0, and a
472 new versioning scheme. We got new artwork, and added almost 200 lines
473 to the ChangeLog. We've watched 2 major GTK+ releases, and added all
474 kinds of features using them. OK, I've wasted enough bits here. This
475 beta rocks, but it is a beta. Treat it as such, and enjoy!
477 Gary: Finally we have a beta. There are a lot of new goodies, including
478 quite a few summer of code projects that couldn't get added into the
479 oldstatus branch because API changes. We also have a new mono plugin
480 loader for even more plugin fun.
482 Richard: Thanks to all who wrote patches (big or small) for this beta.
484 Tim: Well here it is, the first beta. There's a lot of cool things in
485 here, but not all of them are finished or debugged. But then that's
486 why it's called a beta. Conversations are now contact-aware, and
487 there's a new status selector. There's smooth scrolling on incoming
488 messages as well. Our Crazy Patch Writers have been doing a good
489 job too, it seems like we're never lacking some patches in the
490 tracker to review.
492 Etan: I know I'm not going to be able to think of all the things I should
493 talk about here so I'll just go with the stuff I remember. Adding buddies
494 on ejabberd jabber servers should work more correctly now (it's possible
495 adding buddies on other servers is a bit broken currently I'm still
496 looking into it). There are still other jabber issues I'm looking into
497 with handling of buddies.
498 In other topics, I finally brought my Accounts menu into gaim, though the
499 current example of it isn't exactly what I had in mind, anyone with any
500 suggestions/comments/etc about it please speak up.
501 Other than the stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention this beta should
502 be awesome as gaim 2.0.0 is going to be awesome. Have fun with it.
504 Luke: pretty much everything important has been said, so this is going to
505 be rather repetative. This is a beta folks, so it will have bugs. It
506 will crash unexpectedly. Perhaps even frequently. Use it at your peril.
507 But do use it (though you might want to back up ~/.gaim first), and let us
508 know what needs to be fixed.
510 Mark: Yay.
512 Stu: Wow!
514 Siege: Sametime accounts created with gaim-meanwhile should merge over
515 for use in the beta just fine. Some of the familiar settings regarding
516 the buddy list are gone, so I recommend backing up your Sametime blist
517 before getting down and crazy. Have fun, and happy early Decemberween!
519 Daniel: Enjoy! In the hopes that this prevents someone pain... do not use
520 Glib/GTK+ 2.8.x with Wingaim - it will not work. We're looking into the
521 problem and hope to have it resolved before the final release.
522 "Happy Holidays!"
524 1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
525 Mark: No super crazy major changes here. Just the usual bug
526 fixes and some pretty important security updates.
528 Stu: Buy Sean's book. He obviously needs the money. Other than that
529 we fixed some bugs with this release (I don't think we did much else).
530 SoC students are doing lots of cool stuff which we'll hopefully be
531 able to bring you in a future release.
533 Nathan: I've continued my streak of doing nothing useful lately.
534 However, I've now got a brand-spanking-new DSL line, so I might
535 actually get to contribute soon. One way or another I'd like
536 to get HEAD into a more useable state in the next month or two.
537 Also, like Stu said, buy Sean's book. I've been reading and
538 fixing it for the last umpteen months, so you had better enjoy
539 it.
541 1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
542 Mark: The last month or four we've promoted a bunch of the Gaim
543 Crazy Patch Writers to developers, so there is now an even larger
544 team of brilliant and amazingly sexy committers working around
545 the globe for your instant messaging pleasure. Also, we have
546 what I believe to be our first contribution from a Summer of Code
547 student in this release: Jonathan Clark enabled the sending of
548 files to certain ICQ users. Support is still a bit rough, but
549 he'll be working on it throughout the summer.
551 Luke: Exciting times this summer as our Summer of Code interns
552 start their projects. This is mostly a bug fix release, with the
553 ICQ file transfer that Mark mentioned and some buddy icon work
554 being the only real new code. Hence the extra week delay. A
555 big thanks to our translators who keep churning out updates even
556 when we give them short notice as well. Enjoy!
558 1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
559 Sean: It's been a while since I've done one of these. Welcome to
560 Gaim 1.3.1, "New Hyde Park." This is, again, another bugfix release
561 but it comes with two keen announcements. First, I'd like to welcome
562 Christopher O'Brien to the Gaim team. He has integrated his work on
563 the Meanwhile project into Gaim, ensuring that Gaim 2.0.0 will include
564 Sametime support. Also, we're participating in Google's Summer of
565 Code, which you all should check out at
566 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
568 1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
569 Luke: This release fixes SILC for multiple accounts. HOWEVER, you
570 may lose your buddy list (for SILC only) upgrading. This is
571 rather unavoidable as the previous code did not keep track of
572 which account each buddy belonged to.
574 Stu: I'm glad we're finally getting this out, if fixes a number of bugs
575 ranging from minor to not so minor. I'd also like to welcome Gary to
576 the team - he's done a great job with Guifications, I'm sure he'll do
577 good stuff here too.
579 Gary: Well I got pretty much nothing done for this release. Although I
580 do have quite a few things in the works that will come to fruition when
581 I find some more free time.
583 1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
584 Luke: Several important fixes this time around. Big thanks to
585 Robert McQueen, Stu, Nathan, Ethan, and everyone else who has helped
586 with this effort. Maybe next time we can get a decent chance to fix the
587 problems *before* they go public to have a normal release process.
589 Nathan: Jabber got some updates this release (finally). I've got
590 more planned, but simply haven't had the time to anything about it.
592 1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
593 Luke: Happy St. Patrick's Day all. Sean scheduled a release for
594 today, we'll see if we can pull it off. :-) This release
595 features somewhat more than just bug fixes, some improvements
596 have been made to the conversation API which may affect plugin
597 developers. Yahoo users should also thank Tim and Bleeter for
598 their efforts.
600 Etan: I'm going to NEWS since I actually did something this time.
601 Jabber will allow you to unsubscribe to someone's presence
602 without logging out and in again, this does break seeing yourself
603 on your buddy list, but hopefully we'll fix that again for the
604 next release.
606 Stu: Happy St. Guinness^wPatrick's day.
608 1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
609 Sean: Another bug fix release. A big thanks to Rob McQueen, Ari
610 Pollak, Don Seiler, and Warren Togami: some packagers who helped
611 debug a nasty glib 2.6 problem. Also thanks to our own Stu who
612 found and destroyed an MSN crash and an HTML parsing error
614 Luke: Early release to handle the MSN and HTML crashes, as well
615 as the glib crash. Maybe that makes up for having had a 4 week
616 period before the last release. This one should be the nice
617 stable release we meant 1.1.3 to be. Enjoy!
619 Stu: I cleaned up the whitespace in this NEWS, it was bugging me.
621 1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
622 Luke: Yet another bug fix release, many thanks to everyone who has
623 helped to make gaim more stable!
625 Stu: I fixed too many Yahoo HTTP proxy bugs, I should just go and
626 write some core HTTP support that works better. A good all round
627 bug fix release otherwise.
629 1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
630 Luke: Another Bug fix release. This one featuring a fix to the HTTP
631 Method for MSN users and other MSN fixes. A big thanks to Stu and
632 Felipe Contreras for those. Stu also spent a long time in valgrind
633 and so this brings you a Gaim release with fewer memory leaks. This
634 release is on time primarily because I want to see the MSN fixes
635 make it into Debian and Fedora before freezes. Expect further bug
636 fix only releases to come at longer intervals, at Mark's request.
638 Daniel: This is my first NEWS! (YaY) I didn't really do too much for
639 this release. There are a few bugfixes, mostly wingaim stuff. Oh, and
640 I like the new XP System Tray icons.
642 Sean: I'm down here today. I haven't really been paying too much
643 attention to these boring bugfix releases, but I'd like to thank
644 David and welcome him to the team. I'd also like to thank Steven
645 and Nathan from Silverorange who redid the webpage.
647 Tim: Another bug fix release. I didn't really fix any bugs, so
648 I didn't exactly do much for this one. The autopackage will now
649 work with mozilla-nss, if anyone has that, and not gnutls11. (It
650 works with either gnutls11 or mozilla-nss, but not gnutls10)
651 I started working on Gaim-vv again though, and I merged someone's
652 custom msn smiley patch into the 2.0.0 tree, so expect good things
653 whenever that's released (no, don't try it now, you won't like it).
654 Oh and welcome to the team Daniel. Of course, he was already on my
655 Gaim-vv team.
657 Stu: Welcome Daniel! you've done some good stuff already. Felipe did some
658 good work on MSN yet again, so you can all use the HTTP method now. I
659 didn't do all that much, other than let valgrind tell me what to fix, and
660 a couple of easy bug fixes from the bug tracker. Hopefully Ethan will get
661 well soon, so he can get back to merging patches and fixing things.
663 Nathan: I think I made some Jabber fixes, at least one of which is
664 ChangeLog'd. I will continue to make empty promises about new features,
665 especially for 2.0.0. Until then, welcome Daniel!
667 1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
668 Luke: This bug fix release features msn improvements, drag and drop
669 improvements, and some translation stuff. Thanks for everone who has
670 helped with it, and hopefully we can get 2.0.0 out soon. On a side
671 note, i'm still looking for someone to look at the perl plugin loader.
673 1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
674 Luke: Another in our series of bug fix releases, with a slight twist.
675 Everyone thank Ethan for implementing a fall back encoding for IRC,
676 it has been much requested and should make a number of users very
677 happy. See the ChangeLog for details on other fixes.
679 Stu: Much thanks to Miah Gregory and Felipe Contreras, a bunch of
680 memory leaks have been fixed. Felipe also fixed a good number of
681 other MSN bugs. I didn't do much except apply these guys fixes. It's
682 good to see fixes from Gary coming in again too ;-). I like the
683 docklet adjustments Christian made. Btw, we have a new MSN protocol
684 icon, and I think you'll love it.
686 Tim: I made Gaim binary relocatable this release, so Gaim can find
687 itself if it gets lost, and I'm going to try to make autopackages
688 for this release, if the autopackage guys release their new version
689 soon like they're talking. I also "fixed" a scrolling bug, by
690 realizing it was all Gentoo's fault. The IRC encoding thing Ethan
691 did is pretty nice, no more encoding error messages!
693 Ethan: Rumor has it that I did some work this release, but it's just
694 that, a rumor. I think Luke started it. I did lay the hammer down
695 on bogus word wrapping in the NEWS, so you can thank me for that.
696 Keep your powder dry.
698 1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
699 Luke: Not much to see here, some bug fixes that you all will enjoy as
700 the semester draws to a close and everyone still in school gets bogged
701 down with projects, papers, and exams. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are interested
702 in the perl or gadu-gadu functionality, please step up to help write
703 patches, as both of these code blocks are currently unmaintained.
705 Tim: I fixed a couple bugs this time. In other news, Kim wants to get
706 a pet cockatiel or two.
708 Nathan: I was gonna put a new feature in this release, but decided
709 not to because I found a bug in it today, and I'm tired. Also, I haven't
710 consulted the powers-that-be about putting new features into oldstatus.
712 Stu: I'm writing this at 11:11:11pm on 11/11. Eleven. It's 3 really. Or B.
713 It's the 5th smallest prime number. Himalia is the 11th moon of Jupiter.
714 Hendecagon. There are 1011 players on a football team. XI. 16 hours. Eleven
715 is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English. This
716 entry is my 11th lie for today.
718 1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
719 Stu: I'm new around here. I tried to reduce the number of bugs in the bug
720 tracker, but it turns out that the only way to achieve that is to actually
721 _fix_ the bugs. So I fixed a couple, and then sneaked some patches out of
722 the patch tracker to fix some others. Sadly the bug tracker was not
723 significantly affected, maybe if I learn C I'll be able to make more of an
724 impact.
726 Luke: Don't let Stu fool you, he has done a marvelous job on this release,
727 and deserves a lot of credit for it. And a number of those bug fixes are
728 critical ones that he discovered and fixed himself. So go update. Now.
730 Nathan: On the other hand, Nathan has done nothing for this release. Why
731 do we keep him around again?
733 Tim: So, I'm married now, and in Huntsville. I don't remember if I did
734 anything for this release or not, probably not. Bleeter has been more
735 active lately though, perhaps we'll see lots of cool things from him
736 soon.
738 Sean: I'm down here with the "didn't do anything" guys.
740 1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
741 Congratulations to Tim & Kim on their wedding!
743 Sean: So, if you're playing along at home, you're aware that
744 incrementing the micro version number means that the API has
745 not changed at all. Although that itself is insignificant to
746 most everyone but plugin developers, but users won't find too
747 many significant changes. Consult ChangeLog. We're currently
748 branched for some major changes, so expect a really great 2.0.0
749 sometime relatively soon.
751 Luke: Nothing much to see here, some bug fixes. Most of the work
752 is going towards the 2.0.0 release. We aren't quite sure when
753 that will be, and will keep the bug fix releases coming untill
754 all is ready.
756 Christian: I would call this a ground-breaking release, but it isn't.
757 It seems like a good one, though. I dunno. I've been too busy at VMware,
758 unfortunately, but have some work that's just waiting to be finished up
759 for Gaim. Gaim 2.0.0 is going to rock. Gaim 3.0.0 will rock more.
760 Do you see a pattern? Thanks go out to Henry Jen for fixing up parts of
761 the gevolution plugin to support multiple addressbooks, and to all our
762 moms, for believing in us. Or something.
764 Nathan: I got a new computer. It's fast. And has twice the bits!
766 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
767 Nathan: Hah! Bet you weren't expecting this! OK, if you were
768 paying any attention to the flame^H^H^H^H^Hthread on gaim-devel,
769 you might have been expecting this. But here it is, 1.0.0. Our
770 new versioning scheme has slightly more meaning than the older
771 one (expecially for plugin authors), but our 1.0(.0) release is
772 just as meaningless as we could have hoped. Enjoy!
774 Luke: We've changed our pattern for version numbers with this
775 release, we are no longer simply counting versions. This release
776 then marks, not something traditionally "1.0" but the current
777 version of the api. When backwards compatability with that breaks
778 you'll see 2.0, more details in the faq. As a side note, if you
779 are reading this and are good with proxy code or with perl's XS C
780 bindings, please get in touch with me, my contact info is on the
781 website. Gaim could use your help.
783 Mark: I love a circus.
785 0.82 (08/25/2004):
786 Rob: Woah, where did I come from?
788 Mark: Lately I've been doing a lot more code maintenance/patch
789 accepting/bug fixing type of work. And I think that's a really
790 good thing. I feel like Gaim is becoming more stable. It
791 seems like we're lacking fewer features. It makes me warm.
792 Quick Robin! To the traverse wall!
794 Nathan: Well, it looks like we stuck to the schedule again. Had
795 we taken our dear sweet time, I might have had a chance to do
796 something cool for this release, but instead I stuck to the minor
797 stuff. <insert empty promises for the cool stuff i'll code for
798 next time here>
800 Tim: Lately I've been doing a lot more patch accepting, and a
801 lot less actual coding. Unfortunately it has more to do with my
802 laziness than Gaim's progress. Like Nathan, I'm going to blame
803 our on time release schedule. But that didn't stop our Crazy
804 Patch Writers, or cpw's as grim now calls them, from writing
805 some good patches. So, instead of promising to code something
806 cool for next release, I'm going to promise that the cpw's will
807 code cool things for next release, and I might apply some of them.
809 Luke: I've been doing what I always do, committing patches, some
810 better than others, and bugging other people to code stuff. Oh
811 and closing some bugs. Thanks to Dave West for joining the cpws
812 in helping to handle triage. This is mostly a bug fix release,
813 so PLEASE upgrade to it before submitting new bugs.
815 Kevin: Herman's been away, so Daniel Atallah and myself were given
816 the task of preparing 0.82's Windows packages. After some feverish
817 plotting, we decided to update GTK and Daniel prepped an update to
818 libpng to address recent security advisories. Besides plotting and
819 a little bit of testing, this NEWS is all I really did. Oh, I also
820 rerefixed the transparency plugin... again! Our beloved Hermanator
821 should be back next time around, for 0.83.
823 0.81 (08/05/2004):
824 Sean: Three weeks again! Sticking to schedules is awesome! Just
825 like Gaim v0.81. This is what we in the industry call a "bugfix
826 release." We closed over TWO HUNDRED bugs since 0.80. That's
827 awesome. Thanks to everyone who helped report, triage, fix, and
828 test.
830 Christian: Yay for three weeks working so well. Boo for me not
831 doing much of anything this release, aside from a small memory
832 leak fix. I'm starting a new job and leaving my current one, so
833 when the dust settles and my schedule is a bit better, the very
834 cool status rewrite will be finished up. Especially now that I have
835 some help! I'd like to second Sean's thanks to all the people who
836 helped with this bug fix release. Gaim should be a bit more stable
837 for a lot of you. For those experiencing MSN problems still, we'll
838 get that nailed for you soon, promise.
840 Mark: I was going to point out that we closed an insane amount of
841 bugs for this release, but Sean already did that. I feel like
842 we've had some really talented new contributors contributing
843 recently. I won't say names... but watch your backs. Or something.
845 Nathan: I did next to nothing for this release. I am however
846 settled in to my new job, and in a couple days, I should be settled
847 into my new domicile. If the DSL gods are in a good mood, I'll
848 have a connection there shortly, and can start being useful again.
850 0.80 (07/15/2004):
851 Sean: Three weeks! Hooray for timeliness! I didn't do much here
852 but drag-and-droppable file transfers. Drag something into a
853 conversation window, and it will be sent. Kinda neat.
855 Mark: We have a small ant problem here. I can't help but think
856 I somehow brought this upon myself.
858 Tim: I don't really have any news, but at least I don't have an
859 ant problem either. You might think I've been hard at work on
860 Gaim-vv, but I haven't, I've just been lazy. I plan on doing
861 some cool things "soon" though, both with Gaim and Gaim-vv.
862 Bleeter sent me some nice dumps I need to implement yet.
864 Luke: We have a nice timely release, with a Changelog that seems
865 small, but remember, this is summer, and people have lives. SILC
866 and Zephyr are making good progress from our Crazy Patch Writters,
867 and everyone begging to send files to people not on their buddy
868 list will be happy. good stuff. No, the msn buddy icon scalling
869 problem isn't fixed yet, maybe next release
871 0.79 (06/24/2004):
872 Sean: We've moved to a three-week release cycle which we'll
873 hopefully be able to keep up more realistically than a two-week
874 cycle. Yahoo! went and broke last night, but it's fixed now thanks
875 to a quick fix sent in by Cerulean Studios this morning. Reports say
876 they'll continue to try to break us, though, so don't be surprised
877 if your Yahoo cuts out again.
879 Luke: I was really distracted this cycle, I want to thank my co-
880 developers and our crazy patch writers for keeping things going.
881 We have a fairly long changelog for you this release, including some
882 nice bug fixes and some much-requested new features, the ChangeLog
883 has all the details there of course. Enjoy!
885 Christian: Great release! MSN buddy icons and file transfer. A big round
886 of applause to Felipe! Too bad about the Yahoo thing, but.. eep! I have
887 to go! Movie with the girls and Farmer's Market.
889 Tim: This release brings us /commands in the core, which hopefully
890 works better, and Yahoo! buddy icons. Thanks to all the people I
891 bugged for packet captures, like Simguy, Bleeter, and odl. Yahoo!
892 broke again, so I did a little last minute work on the web
893 messenger stuff, but then Cerulean Studios was cool and fixed the
894 problem already, so all that code's disabled. I also finally added
895 the Yahoo! Japan support, for those of you with Yahoo! Japan
896 accounts.
898 Mark: I fixed that icon animation thing that caused Gaim to lock-up.
899 I also stepped on something at the beach and I think there might be
900 a little rock or something in my foot now.
902 Nathan: I've been really busy, what with having a new job and all.
903 I didn't think I had done anything, but apparently I fixed some
904 Jabber stuff, and some IPv6 stuff. I must have been sleepcoding
905 or something, because I haven't had time for such things. Ah well,
906 enjoy this release. We'll see what I can get to in the next 3 weeks.
908 0.78 (05/30/2004):
909 Luke: A very long time, once again, since the last release. I think
910 its mostly worth it. A few of you will still have trouble with msn
911 but we've worked out a number of bugs even there. Thanks to heroic
912 efforts on the part of Mark, we closed 400 some odd reports this
913 month. We are also welcoming Tim to the project, a very active
914 crazy patch writer who has brought massive improvements to WYSIWYG
915 and direct im this release. Again, it still won't work for every
916 one, but it will work for more people than it used to. Most
917 noticably, this release brings a LARGE simplicfication of the
918 preferences available. Please don't complain if your favorite
919 preference is no longer there. Take some time to think about
920 how and if it could be useful to a majority of people who use
921 Gaim in ways nothing like you. You'll find that the answer will
922 usually be that the preference isn't all that important.
924 Tim: I continued with the other crazy patch writers in fixing those
925 WYSIWYG bugs. Then they went and made me a developer. Which is cool.
926 They told me I could commit WYSIWYG and Yahoo! changes. So I went
927 and fixed IM Image and Direct Connect in AIM for some reason. I also
928 added some new Yahoo! smileys at least. Also you change your link
929 color in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file now. I might work on some of those
930 new Yahoo! features for next release, like buddy icons. But don't
931 count on it. Thanks to everyone who congratulated me. And thanks
932 to all our Crazy Patch Writers, who now expect me to apply all their
933 Crazy Patches.
935 Christian: First of all, congrats to Tim! He's our latest Gaim
936 developer, and we're all glad to have him on board. He's been a
937 valuable contributor for awhile now. Thanks again to Felipe Contreras
938 for all his MSN work this release. He has some exciting stuff that
939 we'll be seeing in 0.79. And last, but not least, thanks to all our
940 crazy and not-so-crazy patch writers. There's been a lot done this
941 release. I've been taking a small break, first due to school and now
942 work, but I'll be coming back strong in the next couple of releases. In
943 the meantime, enjoy.
945 Gary: Congrats to Tim, no more competing for most ChangeLog entries.
946 This means you _should_ be winning every release. Anyways, I didn't
947 finish nearly as much as I wanted to for this release but all of that
948 and then some should appear in 0.79.
950 Sean: I'll write my entry down here tonight. Removing preferences
951 was my big crusade this week, and the team did a great job at it,
952 but I still have a nagging feeling that our preferences are still
953 overwhelming. Everyone's been doing a real great job; it's entirely
954 my fault we keep failing to meet our three-week schedule. Send your
955 complaints this way.
957 Nathan: I really didn't do much thanks to exams, and graduation, and all
958 of that fun stuff. For next release, I'll have all new excuses, like my
959 new job, or maybe something I haven't even thought of yet. Oh yeah, and
960 a big warm welcome to Tim!
962 0.77 (04/22/2004):
963 Sean: We're back to a somewhat regular release cycle now. Hooray!
964 WYSIWYG is much improved in this release, and you can now copy and
965 paste rich text to and from Gaim and other applications (see: Mozilla,
966 Evolution OpenOffice). Also, Novell has released their first release
967 of their GroupWise plugin, included in this release. Good stuff all
968 around.
970 Luke: Only a week "late" this time around, much nicer than the delay
971 before the last release. Anyway, this release sees a HUGE number of
972 improvements to the WYSIWYG support, much thanks to all involved. If
973 you weren't impressed before, you should be now! This release also
974 sees the end of our TOC support, no one has been working on this in
975 some time and its causing problems. DON'T USE IT!. Also plugin
976 authors will want to take note of the fact that the plugin api version
977 changed. A nice solid release for you all :-)
979 Ethan: Once again I thought about doing some things and committed
980 things that other people did. This development model is awesome. I
981 helped Mark refactor some stuff and our collective code ownership
982 helped us utilize a coherent system metaphor during our pair program-
983 ming sessions. It was extremely extreme. Look for some hard crypto
984 lovin' from yet another crazy contributor in the near future...
986 Ka-Hing: I actually did something for this release... or rather, the
987 previous release, but LSchiere2 didn't commit that until this release.
988 So blame him. System logging is back, so you can log people's signon/
989 off/away/idle-ness again. There may be bugs with it, I don't know, not
990 like I use it. I will try to work on something that I will actually use
991 for the next release.
993 Etan: Looking for someone to pair program with.
995 Christian: A round of applause to our crazy patch writers! Their
996 contributions this release is impressive. WYSIWYG has come a long way
997 since 0.76 thanks to them. Also, thanks to Felipe Contreras for his
998 MSN contributions. We should see some good stuff going into there soon.
999 I myself didn't do a huge amount, aside from breaking everybody's
1000 plugins, although I have some work going on in the background that will
1001 hopefully make it into release soon.
1003 0.76 (04/01/2004):
1004 Sean: Yeah, it's been a long time since the last release, and despite
1005 what others may tell you, we were just really lazy. This is pretty
1006 much just 0.75 again, but, like, someone changed the "Info" icon and
1007 I think, like, the Chinese translation may have been updated. We did
1008 nothing interesting on it at all. Others may tell you "we haven't just
1009 been lazy," or "you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat
1010 stuf in this one." They lie. All of them.
1012 Luke: Okay, normally I wait for Sean to go first, but he said to commit.
1013 Its been a few months since the last release, but we haven't just been
1014 lazy. A very long ChangeLog for you all. Most notably of course is the
1015 addition of WYSIWYG input for chats and conversations. Many thanks to
1016 DAYS of long work by Sean, Gary Kramlich, Kevin Stange, Tim Ringenbach,
1017 and Stu Tomlinson for their efforts writting, fixing, and testing
1018 this. Without the dedicated support of our crazy patch writters, this
1019 release would have taken yet longer. Sean also has yahoo working again,
1020 with some assistance from our friends over at Trillian, you may all
1021 officially rejoice. We also have a large number of bug fixes, closing
1022 more than 200 bug reports this month alone.
1024 Christian: It's been a long time between the last release, but I think
1025 you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat stuff in this one.
1026 So many bug fixes and new features. It's enough to drive a wombat mad!
1027 The new WYSIWYG input is cool stuff. You'll either love it or hate it,
1028 I guess. I'm working on some stuff that some of you are going to love,
1029 but I'm not promising it for a few more versions. It's a secret!
1031 Mark: Our crazy patch writers rock. Gary Kramlich, Tim Ringenbach,
1032 Kevin Stange, and Stu Tomlinson did an amazing job of tying up
1033 loose ends and helping get this release out the door. Thanks guys!
1035 Rob: My birthday is in a few days. I like cool stuff. Buy me something
1036 grand!!
1038 Tim: Luke said write a NEWS, so I thought I would. There's a room
1039 list dialog now. And Nathan and I doubled the number of protocols that
1040 can transfer files. After that I got lazy/busy and let Gary, Kevin,
1041 and Stu fix all the bugs.
1043 Nathan: Rob happens to share a birthday with my sister. So far she's
1044 been very vague about what she wants. She's not an easy person to shop
1045 for. As for things you probably care more about, this release has so
1046 much in it that I've forgotten about most of it. The stupidest of the
1047 bugs from 0.75 are fixed. Jabber has a first pass at file transfer
1048 support (no proxy support yet). SOCKS 5 proxy support may have gotten
1049 a little better as a side-effect. Twinkies and penguin points to all
1050 of the crazy patch writers, who did more than their fair share this
1051 release.
1053 Ethan: My birthday was yesterday, and not on the same day as Rob
1054 and Nathan's sister. And I don't mean that Rob and Nathan have the
1055 same sister. For this release, I thought about making IRC better, I
1056 thought about making Tcl better, and I committed patches from several
1057 others who actually did these things. And probably some other
1058 things, too. Let's hear it for crazy patch writers, and for the open
1059 source philosophy that lets them get so CRAZY.
1061 0.75 (01/09/2004):
1062 Rob: Woah, what's this? Me? Making a NEWS post!? Say it ain't so!
1063 That's right, kiddos, I'm finally coming out of my reclusiveness.
1064 I had a pretty shitty few months, and also just needed a break from
1065 things. But, I'm back, and that's good. Right? Yes. And now,
1066 a little word from Eric Warmenhoven.. :P
1068 Eric: Ah, Rob and Eric. Just like the good ol' days. Now, if
1069 you'll excuse me, I have to go make some commits with Led Zeppelin
1070 lyrics as my commit logs. heh. What do you mean, I look a lot
1071 like Sean Egan? I'm... oh fine, you got me. It's really just Sean
1072 in an Eric Warmenhoven costume.
1074 So, Yahoo! works again, and that's good. And 0.76 is going to have
1075 something _very_ neat.
1077 Nathan: You're running out of excuses to not use Jabber. Our chat
1078 support is now bar-some, quickly approaching bar-none! Everything
1079 else in Jabber got neat improvements too. I'll leave it up to you
1080 to figure out what they were.
1082 <boilerplate promises for cool features in $version++>
1084 Christian: I've been a bit absent this release, due to life stuff
1085 and working on some other projects. Some MSN goodies are going to be
1086 available in an upcoming version, and I have some neat Gaim-related
1087 stuff I'm working on that will hopefully see the light of day. I'd
1088 like to say good job to the other developers. Good release. (Of course,
1089 every time I say that, something breaks horribly right after we
1090 release it.)
1092 Luke: Okay, so Sean rocks and got Yahoo working again in 12 minutes.
1093 Unfortunately, he took out the chat support in doing so. So use
1094 conferences for now if you use yahoo. Users begging for file
1095 transfer support should thank Tim 'marv' Ringenbach for Yahoo ft,
1096 and everyone should be happy to note that 0.75 leaks far less than
1097 0.74. Also, a lot of other bug fixes happened that escape my notice
1098 right now.
1100 Ethan: I just want to say that now logging really doesn't eat
1101 memory 'till the cows come home. We don't think.
1103 I would like to thank each and every one of these people, and
1104 I think you should, too:
1106 Paul A, Daniel Atallah, Patrick Aussems, Brian Bernas,
1107 Jonas Birmé, Ethan Blanton (hi Mom), Joshua Blanton, Herman
1108 Bloggs, Jason Boerner, Graham Booker, Craig Boston, Chris
1109 Boyle, Jeremy Brooks, Sean Burke, Cerulean Studios LLC,
1110 Ka-Hing Cheung, Arturo Cisneros Jr., Vincas Ciziunas, Joe
1111 Clarke, Todd Cohen, Felipe Contreras, Jeramey Crawford, Mark
1112 Doliner, Nuno Donato, Jim Duchek, Tom Dyas, Andrew Echols,
1113 Sean Egan, Brian Enigma, Stefan Esser, Larry Ewing, Jesse
1114 Farmer, Gavan Fantom, Rob Flynn, Nathan Fredrickson, Free
1115 Software Foundation, Decklin Foster, Adam Fritzler, Michael
1116 Golden, Ryan C. Gordon, Christian Hammond, Andy Harrison, G.
1117 Sumner Hayes, Mike Heffner, Iain Holmes, Karsten Huneycutt,
1118 Akuke Kok, Tero Kuusela, Dennis Lambe Jr., Ho-seok Lee, Moses
1119 Lei, Ambrose C. Li, Nicolas Lichtmaier, Artem Litvinovich, Syd
1120 Logan, Matthew Luckie, Brian Macke, Paolo Maggi, Willian T.
1121 Mahan, John Matthews, Ryan McCabe, Robert McQueen, Robert
1122 Mibus, Benjamin Miller, Kevin Miller, Paul Miller, Arkadiusz
1123 Miskiewicz, Andrew Molloy, Matt Pandina, Ricardo Fernandez
1124 Pascual, Havoc Pennington, Ari Pollak, Robey Pointer, Nathan
1125 Poznick, Brent Priddy, Federicco Mena Quintero, David Raeman,
1126 Etan Reisner, Kristian Rietveld, Tim Ringenbach, Andrew
1127 Rodland, Neil Sanchala, Carsten Schaar, Luke Schierer, Torrey
1128 Searle, Jim Seymour, John Silvestri, David Smock, Mark
1129 Spencer, Lex Spoon, Kevin Stange, David Stoddard, Stu
1130 Tomlinson, Brian Tarricone, Peter Teichman, Arun A. Tharuvai,
1131 Philip Tellis, Bill Tompkins, Tom Tromey, Junichi Uekawa,
1132 Bjoern Voigt, Nathan Walp, Eric Warmenhoven, Jason Willis,
1133 Matt Wilson, Ximian, Jaroen Zwartepoorte.
1135 Thanks, all.
1137 0.74 (11/25/2003):
1138 Sean: Christian and Nathan were wrong.
1140 Ethan: I don't know how solid or good this release will be, but
1141 hopefully it's better than 0.73! Not that 0.73 didn't rock or
1142 anything, but for those users bit by its peculiar little bugs
1143 it wasn't as nice as this will be.
1145 Nathan: Jabber got some good tweaks, and logging doesn't eat
1146 memory until the cows come home. Which is good, because they
1147 said they'll be out until late.
1149 Luke: Always nice when directories get created correctly ;-)
1151 0.73 (11/21/2003):
1152 Nathan: This should be a really solid release. I fixed most if not
1153 all of the idiotic Jabber bugs from 0.72, and re-enabled the SASL
1154 login stuff, now that it is finalized in the XMPP drafts. Oh, and
1155 we now have a release notification plugin, so you can find out when
1156 the latest and greatest version of Gaim is out without breaking that
1157 reload button in your browser. There's other fun new stuff, but I
1158 forget what it is.
1160 Christian: This is a good release, as Nathan said. For all those who
1161 hated all the disconnect dialogs, we now have a {dis,re}connect{ed,}
1162 dialog that replaces all of them and shows every account that became
1163 disconnected. Also, there were some MSN fixes thrown in, such as
1164 the problem with unblocking users. My personal favorite, since it's
1165 really been bugging me for awhile, is the bug with the border on the
1166 close buttons is fixed. Oh yes, and let's not forget the new logging.
1167 It simply rocks. This is a pretty stable release, so get it. 0.74 is
1168 going to have some niceties that people have been waiting for.
1170 0.72 (10/30/2003):
1171 Sean: I think I'll go as the Gaim logo guy for Halloween. That
1172 would be a cool costume.
1174 Luke: We've had a record month for number of bugs submitted (395 as
1175 of now) this month, but the total number of bugs open has grown by
1176 less than 20, so while it might be fustrating for those of you out
1177 there who think your bug report is being ignored, know that we are
1178 doing our best to look at them all :-). This release fixes a goodly
1179 number of bugs including the troubles with signing on icq (thanks
1180 to Mark). Enjoy!
1182 Christian: Last release brought forward a lot of bug reports, such
1183 as the ICQ bug, and also trouble with installing SSL. I can't count
1184 how many people were confused as to why their MSN plugin wasn't
1185 loading. Now, it'll load regardless, and when you try to connect,
1186 it'll give you an error dialog saying to install SSL (if you don't
1187 have it installed, of course). I didn't do a whole lot this release,
1188 but that'll change with the next. There are some fun things coming.
1190 Ethan: In complete defiance of history, I did something this
1191 release. It had to do with IRC. If I type here for long
1192 enough, I'm sure I'll remember what it was... Oh yeah, all of
1193 you paranoid people can hide your local username by changing
1194 your IRC account settings. I also want to note that we are
1195 aware that building Gaim is Harder than it Should Be on
1196 Solaris, and I am seeking solutions to some of the issues
1197 there. Everyone remember to give some love to the developers
1198 who actually did something of note this release (i.e. not me)!
1200 Nathan: Jabber got a ton better this release, as I fixed most of the
1201 bugs introduced in the last release. Registration works again, and
1202 the next person to break it is going to suffer. I also fixed a
1203 handfull of other little things that I can't remember. This should
1204 be a good release.
1206 0.71 (10/09/2003):
1207 Rob: It's been a while since I've commited some news. I've had a
1208 very hectic few weeks/months. Thing are finally coming together
1209 again for me. This release features much copying and pasting. Yeah.
1211 Sean: I can't wait for everything to be core/ui split!
1213 Christian: This is a good release, and I don't think people will have
1214 too many problems. There are a lot of little nice feature additions,
1215 and much progress has been made on the core/UI split. We should be done
1216 in a couple of releases, assuming we can get the remaining two or three
1217 parts core/UI-split. Oh, and plugin authors are going to hate me again,
1218 as a lot of code (specifically, the conversations code and utility
1219 functions) changed names. This is a Good Thing (TM), as always, but may
1220 require modifications to some plugins. Not all, fortunately, but some
1221 :) Many SSL problems were fixed, though we still have some to go. If
1222 you don't have SSL, you now need it for MSN. MSN won't even load without
1223 it. Starting October 15th, the old protocol won't be supported
1224 anymore, so there's no reason to support the old one anymore.
1226 Herman: I bet some plugin authors have resorted to making voodoo dolls
1227 of Christian. Nothing new for Win Gaim users other than a fix for
1228 missing aim buddy icons, and removal of gtk-wimp (until it matures).
1230 Mark: People are going to make a voodoo doll of me and shower it with
1231 kisses and chocolate women: When an AIM user is away, you can now view
1232 the person's away message in their tooltip. This is very similar to
1233 what iChat does, only our tooltip will wrap lines rather than displaying
1234 off your screen :-)
1236 Nathan: Chocolate women are cool, but I'm a bigger fan of the real kind.
1237 I re-wrote the Jabber support from scratch, so now there's at least one
1238 person who knows what's going on with it. I got lost in the old code,
1239 even in the parts I wrote. It now supports the SASL login stuff from
1240 the XMPP protocol specs, and will automagically upgrade the conncetion
1241 to SSL if it's supported. If anything doesn't work like it did before,
1242 it's probably better, and you should be thankful for it.
1244 Ethan: I'm sure I'll be showered with all kinds of wonderful things,
1245 but I doubt it's because I did anything. The reason being that I
1246 really don't think I did anything. I meant to do some gaim_
1247 prepension and documentation for IRC and Tcl, and handle IRC errors
1248 more responsibly, but I've been meaning to do that for months.
1249 Except the Tcl part, the Tcl plugin hasn't even existed for months.
1250 I figure if I write enough NEWS no one will notice I didn't do
1251 anything during the release cycle. Oh, I did close some bugs. I
1252 didn't fix them, mind you, I just closed them. With abandon.
1253 Don't tell Luke.
1255 Luke: Mmmm, I probly did even less than Ethan, except I closed rather
1256 more bugs for other reasons. Lots of you submitting duplicate bugs.
1257 This should be a pretty good release. We still have a couple crashes
1258 in ssl stuff, but we fixed a number of the bugs in the tracker, and
1259 the code cleaning helps alot as well. Enjoy!
1261 0.70 (9/28/2003):
1262 Sean: Yahoo! works (for now). That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1263 Huge thanks to our dear friends over at Cerulean Studios, creators of
1264 Trillian, for helping us out.
1266 Nathan: This release also works out most of the kinks in the new
1267 contact support. The Jabber goodies I promised will have to wait
1268 for now.
1270 Christian: I didn't really do anything except fix a couple of issues
1271 loading protocol plugins that had plugin dependencies and getting perl
1272 to install where we tell it to. I had hoped that 0.70 would include
1273 a finished libgaim, but Yahoo kind of wrecked that dream. We'll see it
1274 within the next few releases. Life has been busy in a good way :)
1276 0.69 (9/24/2003):
1277 Sean: MSN and Yahoo! work. That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
1279 Herman: Win Gaim has been around for more than a year now.. Time Flies.
1281 Nathan: {{Meta,}{Contact,Buddy},Person} support for all! Also, SSL
1282 support for Jabber makes its debut. More Jabber goodies next release.
1284 Christian: It's a good release. The main highlight really is
1285 Nathan's Contact support, which is just beautiful. My buddy list
1286 shrunk considerably. As Sean stated, MSN and Yahoo! work. MSN
1287 does not support the new MSN buddy icons and stuff, unfortunately,
1288 but we'll see about 0.70. There were a whole bunch of Perl fixes,
1289 so hopefully there will be less complaints directed to my code in
1290 that area ;) Among other new additions of mine are SSL support
1291 (both Mozilla NSS and GNUTLS), Plugin IPC (letting plugins talk to
1292 each other), and some visual niceties in the Accounts window.
1293 Ka-Hing Cheung put in animated smileys, which should please many.
1294 Yeah, good release. Just you wait until 0.70 though.
1296 Robot101: Hi mom. My patch isn't in this release. Watch for the next
1297 one.
1299 Mark: Metacontact support, yeah. Right click on a dude and
1300 select "Expand."
1302 Ethan: God bless the USA.
1304 0.68 (09/01/2003):
1305 Rob: Wow. I am so incredibly tired.
1307 Sean: School starts tomorrow! How fun! I'll have more time to hack
1308 gaim (isn't that supposed to be the reverse?)*
1310 *Some NEWS recycled from v0.10.0
1312 Nathan: I didn't do much for this release, except make Jabber
1313 registration work, and put in a slight tweak to make Gaim work a
1314 little better with jabberd2. Next release you'll all see what I've
1315 been spending my time on, but for now enjoy the fruits of everyone
1316 else's labor.
1318 Mark: I've been really busy with other stuff, but I've spent my
1319 Gaim-time on working towards a more formal translation process.
1320 Hopefully this will result in Gaim shipping with more complete
1321 translation files. Also, all our awesome translators are mentioned
1322 in the about window now.
1324 Christian: I've been really busy with this stuff. Gaim got a new
1325 signal architecture, which is just really cool. The old events system
1326 is gone. Now you connect a signal from a handle (which can be
1327 a plugin or whatever) to a function, and plugins can register their
1328 own functions, and other neat things. Oh yeah, and perl was rewritten.
1329 There's a new HOWTO in the Doxygen docs (make docs), but no API
1330 reference yet. Developers, look at the plugins/perl/common/*.xs files
1331 for now. I also wrote plugin dependencies, which will be more useful
1332 down the road. Gaim v0.69 is going to have the new MSN plugin that
1333 works with the latest MSN protocol. Please be patient for that, as
1334 we're getting a lot of MSN questions we answer over and over.
1336 Luke: Wow, I actually did something for this release besides commit
1337 translations! Well, sorta. I got permission to commit some patches
1338 so gaim now has color support for yahoo, and you can fetch some
1339 basic info on yahoo and msn users. Yay for people submitting patches!
1341 0.67 (08/14/2003):
1343 Rob: I live in Georgia. I don't care about blackouts. We only
1344 have to deal with floods and tornadoes.
1346 Sean: Fortunately me for me, I live in the only place in New York
1347 that still has power tonight! New features in 0.6@%f)*2.{\
1348 NO CARRIER
1350 Christian: I guess Sean couldn't be here to tell you about all the
1351 great new things. New stuff was done! It's simply amazing. Yeah. So,
1352 new IRC protocol plugin, tab text is greyed on events (like "So and
1353 so has signed off!"), protocol icons on tabs (thanks to Etan Reisner),
1354 some dialog rewrites.. Great stuff. Gaim's looking more teh perrty.
1355 My big "wow" thing is that the core and UI were split enough for me
1356 to remove the remaining UI code and make a patch, and libgaim was born,
1357 for experimental purposes. However, using it, I was able to make the
1358 second UI ever for Gaim - Gaim for Qtopia (Zaurus and iPaq PDAs).
1359 This is viewable at http://qpe-gaim.sf.net/ (shameless plug?). More
1360 UIs to come I hope! :) Exciting time in Gaim.
1362 0.66 (07/18/2003):
1363 Rob: Oops!!!! This reminds me of other silly things that we've
1364 done. I agree with what Herman is going to say. ;-)
1366 Sean: Man, 0.65 was so super lame and boring. But 0.66? WOW!
1367 This is the most incredible thing EVER. We've done tons of work
1368 since 0.65, and I'm really proud of what we came out with. Thanks
1369 to everyone who helped!
1371 Christian: Wow, I can't even begin to describe how long we've worked
1372 on this one. Monstrous release. Best ever! You won't even recognize
1373 it. If you've had account import problems, delete your accounts.xml
1374 and upgrade to 0.66. Just, wow.
1376 Herman: This is to make up for slipping off the two week release cycle.
1378 Luke: Okay, people, yes we did test 0.65 for bugs, but hey, some things
1379 slip through. This release makes up for that. This should fix the bugs
1380 0.65 introduced, at least the ones that most of you would otherwise hit.
1382 Nathan: We are so smart. S-M-R-T...I mean S-M-A-R-T.
1384 0.65 (07/16/2003):
1385 Rob: Wooo! We're finally ready for 0.65. Are you guys excited? I
1386 haven't worked on anything in this release, either. I've been
1387 working offline on a MacOSX UI. No, you're not allowed to ask
1388 me when it will be ready. If you ask me then I won't answer
1389 you. You've been warned! :-D
1391 Sean: Although I tend to go right here in the two slot in NEWS,
1392 we don't always commit in this order. This is the third time I've
1393 rewritten this because the jerks below me keep commiting while I'm
1394 writing causing mass conflictination. Grrr. Stupid jerks. Anyway,
1395 this is Gaim 0.65. Like other Gaim releases, this allows you to
1396 converse with people far away over the "Internet." That's about it.
1397 It's really not that interesting. In fact, I wouldn't even bother
1398 reading the other people's NEWS. It's all boring. There's some
1399 crap about forest fires and fangs and claws. It's really boring.
1400 Great, now Luke just committed NEWS causing more conflictination.
1401 I wouldn't bother reading his either. Oh, and I don't want to thank
1402 Megan (Cae) or Kevin (SimGuy). They're stupid jerks too. Grrr...
1404 Mark: I actually did stuff for this release. Go me. I probably
1405 shouldn't speak for all of us, but I'm going to anyway: We feel that
1406 this release is one of Gaim's best. It should be relatively bug
1407 free, and the code is cleaner than ever, thanks to lots of work by
1408 Christian and Nathan. We had some help from a few civilians
1409 finding and fixing bugs. Thanks to Megan (Cae), Ka-Hing Cheung
1410 (javabsp), and Kevin Stange (SimGuy) for their work. Man, I was just
1411 looking at Sean's NEWS entry for 0.64--that's talent. Also, stay
1412 in school. Just say no. Only you can prevent forest fires.
1414 Christian: This has been a great release. faceprint rocks, as he got
1415 things moving in the core/UI split by redoing preferences, which forced
1416 us to think about how things would be split. We now have XML
1417 preferences, accounts, pounces, and away messages. No more .gaimrc
1418 ugliness. The accounts and connection code now have new core/UI split
1419 APIs, and there is very little to do before our split is ready to be
1420 used. Rob and I are working off an experimental tarball of what will
1421 eventually be libgaim. He's working on a MacOS X UI (don't ask him
1422 about it, he'll ignore you) and I'm doing a Qtopia UI (you can ask
1423 about that, it's usable!). We added a new protocol, Trepia.
1424 Information about it can be found at http://www.trepia.com/. It's not
1425 complete, so don't send in bug reports about it not finding people in
1426 your local area, please. Oh, and lots of MSN bugs were fixed.
1427 Practically all the known ones. I feared 0.65 would be unstable due to
1428 our rewrites, I believe this is going to be one of the most stable
1429 releases we've had in awhile (knock on wood), thanks to Megan (Cae),
1430 who has done an amazing job at locating, categorizing and documenting
1431 the various bugs she has run into, and kevin (SimGuy). Stay tuned for
1432 upcoming releases. Neat things are coming, but if it has fangs and
1433 claws, curl into a ball. Or yell at it. I can't remember which is
1434 correct.
1436 Luke: Wow! Finally releasing 0.65! Christian, Nathan, and Mark have
1437 worked really hard for this release, all the credit goes to them.
1438 The new preferences are awesome, and there are more bugs fixed for
1439 this release than in the last 3 or 4 releases. Your MSN should work
1440 reliably again, your preferences saved, your accounts resort, the
1441 list goes on and on. A couple preferences, most notably your buddy
1442 list sorting preference won't be imported, but almost all of them
1443 will be and its probly a good idea for you to take a second look
1444 through preferences again anyway, alot of you are starting to
1445 forget that things are optional again. :-)
1447 Nathan: I think I did something for this release a while ago. I've
1448 got a mailbox full of commit emails, and some have my name on them,
1449 so I must have done something, right? Probably some minor jabber stuff,
1450 and lots of crazy bugfixes. It was a team effort, I'd like to thank the
1451 academy, our producer Rob Flynn, and of course all the fans. You rock.
1453 Herman: I was told to write something.. so here it goes. Windows users
1454 will be happy to know that they can now rearrange their Buddy Lists.
1455 I finally got stuck into GTK+ code and fixed the bug in question (this
1456 release will include a patched version of GTK+ 2.2.1). I integrated
1457 the WinGaim systray code into the docklet plugin bringing those nice
1458 docklet features (i.e. Message queuing) to WinGaim. Another major
1459 WinGaim change of note is that debug versions of all dlls can now be
1460 built, providing useful backtraces not only for gaim.dll but for the
1461 plugins as well.
1463 0.64 (05/29/2003):
1464 Rob: I didn't do anything this release either. We're under a crunch
1465 week at work. Friday is the end of the crunch. Hooray!! Thanks for
1466 all of your hard work, guys :).
1468 Sean: Unlike every other time we say, "the next release will be loaded
1469 with cool new features, this time, we really mean it. In fact, they're
1470 already in CVS (don't use CVS). The only obvious new feature for 0.64
1471 is buddy list sorting. This has been much requested and can be set in
1472 the buddy list preferences. You can sort by name, by status, and even
1473 by log file size--putting people you talk to most at the top. Plugins
1474 can even easily add their own sorting methods. It's all very cool. I
1475 want to thank Luke and Ka-Hing for their initial work on it. And yes,
1476 I did make my entire NEWS entry justified on purpose.
1478 Christian: I have a few new goodies in 0.64, but they're mostly
1479 back-end stuff that people like us care about. The things that most
1480 of you will like the most is that almost all of the reported MSN
1481 bugs were fixed. Users with an empty contact list can now login again.
1482 The friendly name bug is gone. E-mail notifications work again. Yay!
1483 We have some big changes in store for 0.65. Careful if you use CVS...
1484 Things will break. :)
1486 Mark: I never really have anything important to add. I'd just like to
1487 thank Jack Daniels for his exquisite bug reports. And whiskey.
1489 Nathan: I don't think I did anything for this release. I'm a bum.
1491 0.63 (05/16/2003)
1492 Rob: Wow, so, what can I say? I've been rather AWOL for the past few
1493 releases. However, that's okay. Work has been pretty friggin hec-
1494 tic, so, that's my excuse. Work is finally going to be slowing down
1495 some. I plan to be doing more Gaim work. That makes me happy. That
1496 makes you happy. That makes us all happy. Now, I just need to
1497 finish rebuilding my car's engine. Engine rebuilds put the FU in
1498 fun!
1500 Sean: Yay! School is finally over. I have to give tons of cherry-
1501 flavored props to everyone whose been helping out while I stayed away
1502 from Gaim to keep myself from failing again, especially Christian and
1503 Nathan.
1505 Luke: Okay, this is NOT a bug fix release, at least for those of you
1506 who use MSN. Christian put in a TON of effort rewritting the MSN prpl,
1507 mega props to him on this release. In other news, we have alot of bugs
1508 fixed, and a goodly number of the translations are more up to date
1509 than they were in earlier releases. There are some other significant
1510 changes, but they are mostly backend stuff, yay for core/ui splits ;-)
1512 Christian: As Sean and Luke said, I did a tiny bit of work in this
1513 release. The MSN prpl was rewritten, and should now work better. It's
1514 compatible with the MSNP7 protocol that MSN v4.x uses. Unfortunately,
1515 MSNP9 is being worked on. Bah. Also, it has MSN Mobile support, so you
1516 can register your MSN account with http://mobile.msn.com/ and people
1517 can page your mobile device. You can also page other MSN Mobile users.
1518 Groups are now stored on server. Oh, and due to the nature of MSNP7,
1519 conversations are timed out after 5 minutes, so you'll unfortunately
1520 see a message indicating that. Sorry! I wrote experimental support
1521 for my own implementation of MSN buddy icons. You can set them in your
1522 account settings much like with AIM, and when you talk to other gaim
1523 users, they'll get your buddy icon. This will last for a few releases,
1524 until the buddy icon implementation in the upcoming MSNP9 protocol is
1525 figured out, and we have support for that. That'll be a couple months
1526 away at least. Also, we have a rewrite of the plugin interface, so
1527 rewrite your plugins! Things are going to get very cool from it. The
1528 debug API was core/UI split, and some enhancements were made to the
1529 debug window. I think that's all from me. It's been a fun release.
1530 Stay tuned, I have some great things coming up!
1532 Nathan: It seems like 0.62 was forever and a day ago. I had to look
1533 at the ChangeLog to remember what I did. Apparently I made it so you
1534 can put chats in your buddy list. And then I tweaked a bunch of stuff
1535 and fixed a bunch of crashes. Then exams came, and then I went home
1536 for a week and left my laptop's power cable here at school, so I didn't
1537 get anything done. Jabber will get all sorts of fun new stuff for
1538 the next release. Really. ;-)
1540 0.62 (04/23/2003):
1541 Sean: This is just another standard bi-weekly Gaim release. Nothing
1542 really interesting, but it has some good bugfixes. Personally, I've
1543 been a bit removed from Gaim development lately what with school getting
1544 tough and stuff, but the rest of the guys have really been doing great
1545 work without me. Thanks, guys.
1547 Christian: I can't remember what I did here.. Think I'll take a quick
1548 look at the ChangeLog.... Okay, guess I was useless. That's okay,
1549 though, because I have some really cool stuff going into 0.63. Plugin
1550 authors will hate me for it. A rewrite of the plugins interface! This is
1551 actually a Good Thing (TM). Anyhow, upgrade to this release, and tell
1552 your friends. 33 Gaim users can't be wrong!
1554 Luke: I didn't do much here besides the odd translation patch and a
1555 couple bug fix patches. This is primarily a bug fix release, and much
1556 needed at that. Didn't get a chance to write sorting code, work has been
1557 busy. Hopeefully it will happen for 0.63.
1559 Mark: Gaim is coming along quite beautimously. I'm going to eat
1560 my Pop-tarts now.
1562 Nathan: oh dot sixty two. There are a lot of bugs fixed in this
1563 release, and one major new feature. Our Jabber plugin now supports
1564 XHTML-IM. In plain english, this means that you can now format your
1565 jabber messages, and other people will see the formatting. GtkIMHTML
1566 still needs some work to get it to parse valid XHTML-IM better, but that
1567 will come in time. That time would come sooner if my CS prof accepted
1568 "I was hacking on Gaim" as a valid excuse for an extension ;-)
1570 0.61 (04/07/2003):
1571 Rob: Nathan commited his news first. However, I'm cooler so I'm putting
1572 my entry above his. Yeah, so, there were some DnD issues with 0.60. I
1573 blame it on the rain. It was falling, falling. I blame it on the
1574 faucet. It drips all night.
1576 Sean: I committed my news after Rob. I'm cooler than Nathan (by far)
1577 but not as cool as Rob. So I go here. Actually, I didn't do anything
1578 since 0.60 other than commit some other peoples patches. The one from
1579 Dave Camp is cool. How 'bout this snow? Isn't that crazy? Oh, and
1580 thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday.
1582 Nathan: You want frequent releases? You got 'em ;-) Chip wrote some
1583 cool new pounce stuff, and things shouldn't get weird when you drag
1584 groups and buddies around. It's bad enough having 1 of some of my
1585 buddies on my list, I definitely don't need duplicates. Being that I
1586 have class in the morning, I'll just raise my juice glass for this one.
1588 Christian: I'm not as cool as Rob, Sean, or Nathan, so I go down here.
1589 Well, among some of the fixes is my new buddy pounce code! This adds new
1590 buddy pounce types, core/ui splitifies the code, and makes the dialog
1591 box spiffy. Yay frequent releases! Erm, I can't think of anything else
1592 cool to say here. Have fun, everyone!
1594 Luke: Okay, i'm probly the least cool, so I'll go last. I committed a
1595 few patches from other people here, nothing earth shattering though. The
1596 biggest thing in this release is the group re-ordering bug fix, having
1597 that fixed will make for fewwer questions. Get used to using releases
1598 people, we want to use cvs for actual development :-).
1600 Mark: I didn't want to write any news without actually having done
1601 anything, so I fixed a meaningless compile warning. Boo-yeah.
1603 Sean: Luke can't spell "fewer". How un-cool is that?
1605 0.60 (04/04/2003):
1606 Rob: Wow. So, it has been a really long time since we started the
1607 gtk2 fork. It's finally ready for public consumption. Sean is about
1608 to go out and buy a case of beer. My roommate is downstairs right
1609 now pouring me a shot of his choice. Everyone, raise your beers if
1610 you've got them. It's been a cool almost 10-months of development.
1611 I hope you all enjoy. Drink'em if you got'em!
1613 Sean: I'm writing this 3 minutes before my 21st birthday. Nobody can
1614 believe we're finally ready to relase 0.60. Many thanks to everyone
1615 who helped out; I'm convinced that Gaim 0.60 is the best IM client to
1616 date (only to be bested by 0.61). There's WAY too much stuff to mention.
1617 Even the ChangeLog is somewhat incomplete. Yay, I'm 21 now! Everyone
1618 enjoy! :)
1620 Nathan: Happy birthday Sean! Rob decided to let me start cleaning up
1621 after everyone, so here I am. "sexy" is the only word that can be used
1622 to describe 0.60. Prepare to be shocked and amazed. /me raises his
1623 (shot) glass ;-)
1625 Christian: Geeeeeze this took a long time. Worth it though! Personally,
1626 I thought we'd all just give up on releases altogether and tell
1627 everybody just to grab CVS. I'm pretty happy with this release. I was
1628 able to contribute quite a bit to it. Makes me feel proud to be a gaim
1629 developer! I'm really looking forward to the future releases. I have
1630 some neat stuff planned. Yay, I'm still 19! Mmmm, Sierra Mist. Make me a
1631 sammich!
1633 Mark: Whoops, I started drinking a little earlier than I was supposed
1634 to. I guess I missed the memo. Hmm, I ate at a restaurant somewhere,
1635 I think it was at Snowshoe, and the menu had "sammiches" on it. It was
1636 pretty sweet. I'd like to give a shout out to all the Gaim
1637 devizelopers for rizocking the hizzy the past few months. Word.
1640 0.59 (06/24/2002):
1641 Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.
1642 I'm very tired but it's time for a release. Enjoy. :)
1643 SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(
1645 Sean: It's been a long time since our last release, and for no
1646 good reason either. Rob and I just haven't been able to get together
1647 to do it. But now we have. Aside from some Jabber changes and some
1648 crucial MSN fixes, most of this release's changes are transparent,
1649 but none-the-less important. Well get some better changes when my
1650 computer works again, you have my word*
1652 *My word is worthless.
1655 0.58 (05/13/2002):
1656 Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release
1657 didn't go out on time. Oh well. I would like to welcome
1658 Jim Seymour aboard the development team. He's going to be taking
1659 over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other
1660 nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.
1662 Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog. Higlights include an
1663 important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.
1664 Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)
1666 Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:
1667 Rob's a mango.
1669 0.57 (04/25/2002):
1670 Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is
1671 what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,
1672 a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean
1673 said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read
1674 our minds ;-).
1676 Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that
1677 ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol
1678 all the other 3rd party clients are using. Next release will be
1679 cooler, I promise.
1681 0.56 (04/11/2002):
1682 Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have
1683 these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.
1684 I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.
1685 Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through
1686 the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like
1687 GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one
1688 annoying style problem.
1690 Sean: Hello. This is another minor release while Rob and I finish
1691 up on some bigger projects. We're reworking a lot of the UI to make
1692 it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.
1693 I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it
1694 will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near
1695 future.
1697 0.55 (03/29/2002):
1698 Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean
1699 has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch
1700 release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,
1701 so it's better in that aspect, I suppose. Enjoy.
1703 Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release. I'm on Spring Break, not
1704 doing any coding at all. But lots of people sent in great patches
1705 anyway. Thanks guys!
1707 0.54 (03/14/2002):
1708 Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this
1709 release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific
1710 smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*
1712 Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced
1713 a bunch too. ;) We were both really busy, and did all the coding
1714 late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,
1715 it's probably just tired code. Enjoy the triscuits!
1717 0.53 (02/28/2002):
1718 Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
1719 nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)
1722 Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.
1723 It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
1724 list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
1725 Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will
1726 be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
1727 notification too. Hooray!
1730 0.52 (02/17/2002):
1731 Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
1732 I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
1733 well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
1734 us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,
1735 as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)
1737 Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is
1738 sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
1739 Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
1740 never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in
1741 MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
1742 this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
1743 Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the
1744 next release ;)
1746 Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)
1749 0.51 (01/24/2002):
1750 Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
1751 after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
1752 hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete
1753 as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
1754 neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)
1757 0.50 (12/13/2001):
1758 Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!
1760 Eric: I second that.
1762 0.49 (11/29/2001):
1763 Rob: *still mamboing*
1765 Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice
1766 little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
1767 a sucky weekend. :-D.
1769 Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)
1771 It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
1772 fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?
1774 Eric: I want to be like you.
1776 Do the cha cha cha!
1778 0.48 (11/18/2001):
1779 Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
1780 Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
1781 too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
1782 thank Eric for his hard work. :)
1784 Eric: Everybody mambo!
1786 0.47 (11/01/2001):
1787 Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
1788 know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
1789 quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
1790 many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.
1792 Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
1793 Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
1794 before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
1795 10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
1796 Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
1797 Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.
1799 0.46 (10/18/2001):
1800 Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
1801 up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
1802 really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.
1804 This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
1805 going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!
1807 Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
1808 crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
1809 Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
1810 version. It's much better, I promise.
1812 0.45 (10/04/2001):
1813 Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
1814 release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
1815 quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
1816 Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
1817 joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
1818 campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
1819 with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.
1821 0.44 (09/20/2001):
1822 Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
1823 a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
1824 feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
1825 in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're
1826 wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
1827 use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)
1829 Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
1830 slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
1831 plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
1832 X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
1833 should load the plugin and join us. :)
1835 0.43 (09/06/2001):
1837 Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
1838 expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
1839 got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this
1840 release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
1841 of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
1842 either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
1843 have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
1844 number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).
1846 Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
1847 often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
1848 we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
1849 should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
1850 report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
1851 last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
1852 change mostly :)
1854 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
1855 Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
1856 because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
1857 the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
1858 release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
1859 Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
1860 don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.
1862 Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
1863 story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
1864 myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new
1865 job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back
1866 online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
1867 able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
1868 back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.
1870 Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
1871 in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
1872 We'll keep you updated with what happens.
1874 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
1875 Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
1876 stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
1877 right?
1879 Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
1880 Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.
1882 Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
1883 in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
1884 a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
1885 24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
1886 random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.
1888 Enjoy this release guys! :-)
1891 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
1892 Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind
1893 the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
1894 of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
1895 of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
1896 passwords, and the man page got a big update.
1898 Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get
1899 group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
1900 plugin.
1902 Peace!
1904 Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
1905 of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
1906 were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
1907 has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
1908 and Oscar is able to sign on again.
1910 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
1911 Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
1912 unavailable online. Hooray.
1914 There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved
1915 dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
1916 that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.
1918 Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!
1920 Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
1921 release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
1922 options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
1923 you set it to Socks5 though.
1925 There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
1926 protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
1927 super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
1928 Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
1929 there.
1931 So that's it. Have fun with it :)
1933 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
1934 Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.
1935 A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
1936 have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let
1937 Eric talk :)
1939 Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
1940 or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
1941 dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
1942 Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
1943 that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
1944 changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.
1946 Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /
1947 .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-
1949 I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
1950 drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked
1951 a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.
1953 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
1954 Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies
1955 in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache
1956 right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go
1957 to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
1958 IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!
1960 Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
1961 you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
1962 were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
1963 accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
1964 working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?
1966 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
1967 Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
1968 morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
1969 all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,
1970 Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).
1972 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
1973 Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
1974 help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
1975 got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
1976 Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
1977 jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
1978 I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
1979 Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
1980 I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.
1982 Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had
1983 a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next
1984 on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --
1985 sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
1986 support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on
1987 between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
1988 I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
1989 paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).
1991 ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **
1994 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
1995 Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just
1996 a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same
1997 functionality as before with the exception of instability. I
1998 didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope
1999 you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).
2001 Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
2002 library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
2003 in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
2004 forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
2005 added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
2006 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.
2009 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
2010 Eric: Yay! I get to go first!
2012 The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
2013 got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
2014 Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
2015 new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
2016 and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
2017 great requests so far, thanks.
2019 I think I like releasing every week.
2021 Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change
2022 In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed
2023 to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
2024 Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys
2025 should be happy with it :).
2027 Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.
2030 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
2031 Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems
2032 to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first
2033 appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be
2034 much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
2035 actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
2036 a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that
2037 things will get better now :).
2039 Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
2040 hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
2041 months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
2042 couple of months.
2044 Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.
2046 0.11.0-pre4:
2047 Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!
2049 Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
2050 prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
2051 bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
2052 the whole release early-release often philosophy.
2054 The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
2055 Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
2056 these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
2057 and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
2058 soon :)
2060 Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
2061 Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
2062 out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.
2064 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
2065 Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
2066 looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,
2067 mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!
2069 This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog
2070 for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is
2071 an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
2072 simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
2073 to leave, this plugin is for you! :)
2075 Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
2076 SourceForge bug report forum at
2077 http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both
2078 Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
2079 from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)
2081 Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
2082 to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
2083 leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
2084 good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
2085 unfortunately).
2087 If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
2088 a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
2089 and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
2090 HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.
2092 This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
2093 protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
2094 mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
2095 condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
2096 reports ;)
2098 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
2099 Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.
2101 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
2102 Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1
2103 release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
2104 Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,
2105 please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
2107 You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.
2109 You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
2110 functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be
2111 added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
2112 some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
2113 appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!
2115 If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
2116 either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
2117 above. :)
2120 Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
2121 Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
2122 make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
2123 turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
2124 Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
2125 class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
2126 protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
2127 uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
2128 static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)
2130 Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
2131 time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
2132 the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.
2134 0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
2135 Rob: I am dumb.
2136 Eric: I am not dumb.
2138 0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
2139 Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
2140 Eric: What happened since the last release?
2141 Rob: You got DSL.
2142 Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
2143 Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
2144 to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things
2145 coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,
2146 but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!
2148 0.10.1 (09/15/2000):
2150 Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
2151 for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor
2152 issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
2153 OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
2154 as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies
2155 in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all
2156 enjoy and take care!
2158 Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
2159 The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
2160 for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
2161 They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
2162 yeah.
2164 0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
2165 Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
2166 last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces
2167 for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully
2168 our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life
2169 kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
2170 Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all
2171 is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
2172 you enjoy it!
2174 Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
2175 only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
2176 It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
2177 what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
2178 new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
2179 I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
2180 that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
2181 connection back >:-/ .
2183 Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took
2184 a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some
2185 custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
2186 idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
2187 to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.
2190 0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
2191 Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit
2192 of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I
2193 would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will
2194 notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
2195 professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our
2196 pimpin' penguin atittude.
2198 Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
2199 making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
2200 means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
2201 and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
2202 work better in general now (thanks fflew).
2204 Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
2205 not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
2206 day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P
2209 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
2210 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2211 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2212 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
2214 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
2215 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
2216 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
2217 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
2218 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
2219 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
2220 we promise.
2222 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
2223 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
2224 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
2225 bugfixes out.
2227 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
2228 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
2229 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
2230 we're probably not going to respond well.
2232 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
2233 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
2234 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
2235 happy hacking.
2237 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
2238 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
2239 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know
2240 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
2241 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
2242 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
2243 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
2245 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
2247 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
2248 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
2250 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
2252 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
2253 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
2254 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
2256 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
2257 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
2258 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
2259 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
2260 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
2261 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
2262 can feel it....)
2264 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
2265 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
2266 cherries are damn good.
2268 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
2269 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
2270 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
2271 and responding to all of them immediately)
2273 I am stupid.
2275 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
2276 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
2277 this one.
2279 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it
2280 right, would we? :-)
2282 0.9.16:
2283 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
2285 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
2286 instead :)
2288 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
2289 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
2290 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
2291 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
2293 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
2295 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
2297 0.9.15:
2298 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
2299 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
2300 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
2301 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
2303 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
2304 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
2305 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
2306 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
2307 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
2308 http://www.marko.net/gaim
2310 Thanks much!
2313 0.9.14:
2314 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
2315 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
2316 hacking!
2318 0.9.13:
2319 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
2320 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
2321 released very soon now.
2323 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
2324 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
2325 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
2326 problems).
2328 0.9.12:
2329 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
2330 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
2331 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
2332 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
2333 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
2334 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
2335 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
2336 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
2337 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
2338 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
2340 0.9.11:
2341 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
2342 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
2343 a new configuration format for Gaim. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
2344 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
2345 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
2346 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
2347 not plumbers! -- rob
2349 ** Extra special update **
2351 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
2352 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
2353 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
2354 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
2355 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
2357 0.9.10:
2358 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
2359 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
2360 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
2361 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
2363 0.9.9:
2364 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
2365 problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
2366 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
2367 you guys!
2368 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
2369 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
2370 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
2371 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
2372 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
2373 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
2374 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
2376 0.9.8:
2377 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
2378 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
2379 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
2380 HTTP proxy support.
2381 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
2382 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
2383 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
2384 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
2385 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
2386 Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
2387 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
2388 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
2389 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
2390 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
2391 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
2392 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
2393 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
2394 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
2395 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
2396 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
2397 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
2398 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
2399 enjoy them! :).
2401 0.9.7:
2402 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
2403 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
2404 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
2405 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
2406 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
2407 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
2408 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
2409 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
2410 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
2412 0.9.6:
2413 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
2414 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
2415 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
2417 0.9.5:
2418 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
2419 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
2420 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
2421 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
2422 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
2423 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
2424 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
2425 gotta love those pranks, eh?
2427 0.8.0:
2428 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
2429 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
2430 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
2431 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
2432 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
2433 want to get it out there.