* Lots of little incremental bug fixes and enhancements in this release.
* Finally got some fixes out there for you Yahoo users behind some
particularly annoying firewalls and proxies, among other fixes. Enjoy!
Changes 2.7.2:
* We discovered a security issue in Pidgin 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 and decided to
release a patched version quickly. This release contains the fix for that
crash, and a few other minor fixes.
This changes the buildlink3.mk files to use an include guard for the
recursive include. The use of BUILDLINK_DEPTH, BUILDLINK_DEPENDS,
BUILDLINK_PACKAGES and BUILDLINK_ORDER is handled by a single new
variable BUILDLINK_TREE. Each buildlink3.mk file adds a pair of
enter/exit marker, which can be used to reconstruct the tree and
to determine first level includes. Avoiding := for large variables
(BUILDLINK_ORDER) speeds up parse time as += has linear complexity.
The include guard reduces system time by avoiding reading files over and
over again. For complex packages this reduces both %user and %sys time to
half of the former time.
libpurple:
* In the Join/Part plugin, add the ability to apply the rules to
buddies. By default, joins and parts for buddies are still shown.
* Support SOCKS proxies specified in GNOME or Windows proxy settings.
* Fix some possible crashes in MSNP15.
* Enable a default SSL trust relationship for MSN servers.
* Avoid disconnecting from XMPP servers on parse errors that are
non-fatal.
* Include some perl files that were mistakenly omitted in 2.5.0.
Pidgin:
* Prevent use of custom smilies without "shortcuts."
* Fix a crash that could appear with AIM buddy tooltips.
Artwork:
* General refresh of many icons in the interface.
* Many cleanups to artwork source are now included in the distribution.
* A new "throbber" animation has been added to indicate when accounts
are connecting.
Bump PKGREVISION of non-bundled plug-ins.
Changes for 2.5.0 (08/17/2008) since 2.4.3:
libpurple + pidgin:
- Lots of bug fixes and improvements for the MSN protocol
(MSNP15 support) and MSN "bunny icon" (?).
- Miscellaneous bug fixes, a few new icons, etc.
- The following API changes:
libpurple:
Added:
* Connection flag PURPLE_CONNECTION_ALLOW_CUSTOM_SMILEY to indicate
that the connection supports sending and receiving custom smileys.
* PurpleSmiley and the Smiley API.
* purple_serv_got_join_chat_failed
* chat-join-failed signal (see conversation-signals.dox)
* chat-invite-blocked and blocked-im-msg signals (see
converation-signals.dox) (Thanks to Stefan Ott)
* purple_blist_update_node_icon
* purple_buddy_icons_node_has_custom_icon
* purple_buddy_icons_node_find_custom_icon
* purple_buddy_icons_node_set_custom_icon
* purple_buddy_icons_node_set_custom_icon_from_file
* purple_notify_user_info_prepend_section_break
* purple_notify_user_info_prepend_section_header
* "website" and "dev_website" items to the ui_info hash table
* purple_cmds_get_handle, purple_cmds_init, purple_cmds_uninit
* cmd-added and cmd-removed signals
* purple_get_host_name
* purple_util_fetch_url_len (temporary function overload to add max_len
param)
* purple_util_fetch_url_request_len
* purple_prpl_send_attention
* purple_prpl_got_attention
* purple_prpl_got_attention_in_chat
Deprecated:
* purple_blist_update_buddy_icon
* purple_buddy_icons_has_custom_icon
* purple_buddy_icons_find_custom_icon
* purple_buddy_icons_set_custom_icon
* pidgin_set_custom_buddy_icon
* purple_util_fetch_url_len
* purple_util_fetch_url_request_len
* serv_send_attention
* serv_got_attention
Changed:
* xmlnode_copy now copies the prefix and namespace map for nodes.
pidgin:
Added:
* gtk_imhtml_smiley_create, gtk_imhtml_smiley_reload and
gtk_imhtml_smiley_destroy to deal with GtkIMHtmlSmiley's.
* pidgin_pixbuf_from_imgstore to create a GdkPixbuf from a
PurpleStoredImage.
* pidgin_themes_smiley_themeize_custom to associate custom smileys to
a GtkIMHtml widget.
* GTK_IMHTML_CUSTOM_SMILEY flag for GtkIMHtml.
* GTK+ Custom Smiley API.
* The typing notification in the conversation history can be disabled or
customized (font, color etc.) in .gtkrc-2.0.
* Added a plugin (not installed by default) which adds a Send button back to
the conversation window. People without physical keyboards have a hard time
with the lack of the button.
* Clicking on the buddyicon in the conversation window toggles the size of the
icon between small and large.
* The settings of a chat (e.g. Handle in an XMPP chat, or Exchange in an AIM
chat) can be edited from its context menu in the buddy list.
* Add a "Present conversation window" preference to the Message Notification
plugin; the "Raise conversation window" option does not unminimize windows
or draw attention to them when they are on other workspaces--the "Present"
option should.
* Add a preference to set Escape as the keyboard shortcut for closing the
conversation window.
* Add an option in the context menu to disable smileys in the selected text
in the conversation history/log viewer. This should help people who
regularly paste code in conversations.
* Add a preference to choose the minimum size of the text input area in lines.
* Moved the "Local alias" field in the Modify Account dialog to be below the
"User Options" heading on the "Basic" tab.
* Number of room occupants is now shown in chat tooltips where possible
* Remove a workaround for older versions gstreamer that was causing crashes
on some non-Linux systems such as HPUX
* Fix some cases of the conversation input entry area being 1 pixel high
* Fix for displaying channel & buddy names in conversation window when they
have '&' in them
* Some memory leak fixes, especially in the Text Replacement plugin
* Rectangular but non-square buddy icons have rounded corners in the buddy list
Pidgin:
* Added the ability to theme conversation name colors (red and blue)
through your GTK+ theme, and exposed those theme settings to the
Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin (Dustin Howett)
* Fixed having multiple alias edit areas in the infopane (Elliott Sales
de Andrade)
* Save the conversation "Enable Logging" option per-contact (Moos
Heintzen)
* Typing notifications are now shown in the conversation area
version 2.3.0 (11/24/2007):
http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.3.0
Some highlights from ChangeLog:
Pidgin:
* Connection errors are now reported in mini-dialogs inside the buddy
list, rather than as buttons in the buddy list and with dialog
boxes. If several accounts are disabled when you sign on elsewhere,
you can now re-enable them all with a single click.
* If you alias a buddy to an alias that is already present within
a particular group, we now offer to merge the buddies into the
same contact.
* A music emblem is now displayed in the buddy list for a buddy if we
know she is listening to some soothing music.
* Added a 'Move to' menu in buddy list context menu for moving buddies
to other groups as an alternative to dragging.
* It is now possible to mark a chat on your buddy list as "Persistent"
so you do not leave the chat when the window or tab is closed.
* The auto-join option for chats is now listed in the "Add Chat"
dialog along with the new persistence option.
* Closing an IM no longer immediately closes your conversation. It
will now remain active for a short time so that if the conversation
resumes, the history will be retained. A preference has been added
to toggle this behavior.
* The "Smiley" menu has been moved to the top-level of the toolbar.
* Pidgin's display is now saved with the command line for session
restoration. (David Mohr)
* ICQ Birthday notifications are shown as buddy list emblems.
* Plugin actions are now available from the docklet context menu
in addition to the Tool menu of the buddy list.
* The manual page has been heavily rewritten to bring it in line
with current functionality.
Finch:
* It's possible to bind key-strokes to specific menuitems in the windows.
Read the 'Menus' section in the man-page for details.
* 'transpose-chars' operation for the entry boxes. The default key-binding
is ctrl+t.
* 'yank' operation for the entry boxes. The default binding is ctrl+y.
(A remote user can cause a DoS by sending a message with invalid HTML.)
version 2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.2
NOTE: Due to the way this release was made, it is possible that
bugs marked as fixed in 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 will not be fixed
until the next release.
* Various bug and memory leak fixes
