New Features:
* Display name changes are now shown in the conversation windows.
(Robert Mibus)
* Get Info on Yahoo! now works for nonenglish profiles.
(Ambrose Li)
* General "Get Info" improvements on Yahoo! and MSN (Ambrose Li)
* Yahoo! Japan support. Click More Options and check Yahoo Japan
in the account editor, to use your Yahoo! Japan account
* Gtk themes can now theme the Gaim buddy list independently of
other things (Stu Tomlinson)
* Show timestamps now has a per-conversation option in addition
to the global one, bringing it in line with the other conver-
sation options (Stu Tomlinson)
* Added MSN buddy icons (Felipe Contreras)
* Added MSN file transfer (Felipe Contreras)
* MSN's idle state now actually sets a buddy idle
* Buddy pounce defaults are now more sane, and apply to the state the
buddy is currently in. For example, if the buddy is idle, set
"Return from idle" by default. The last action(s) used are the
defaults for the next pounce
* Yahoo buddy icon support
* Selected buddy icons will automatically convert to the appropriate
format for the protocol. (GTK 2.2 and higher only)
* Dragging an image file into the Modify Account dialog will set that
as a buddy icon.
* Development headers for compiling third-party plugins are now
installed. (Stu Tomlinson)
* Headers for gaim-remote now reside in gaim/ instead of
gaim-include/.
* Basic YCHT support, which allows joining Yahoo! Chats when
logged in using the web messenger method
Bug Fixes:
* Fixed Yahoo! authentication problems. (Cerulean Studios)
* Non-looping animated icons no longer cause Gaim to freeze
* Flashing windows should work again for unix in window managers that
support the URGENT hint (Etan Reisner)
* Better handling of character sets in RTF for Novell (Mike Stoddard of
Novell)
* Contact list sync problems in Novell fixed (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
* Fixed a crash in SILC that sometimes happened when resolving
the buddy list (Pekka Riikonen)
* Parallel compiles of the perl plugin should work better
(Stu Tomlinson)
* The disconnected UI op was called twice on connection errors. Now
it is only called once. (Evan Schoenberg)
* Dragging into conversation windows works better
* Protocol-specific settings for accounts were being removed whenever
the account was modified. Now they're only removed when the protocol
type changes, as it should be.
* Zephyr bug fixes and memory leak plugs (Arun A Tharuvai)
* Rewrite of MSN buddylist support, which fixed a known syncronization
bug and some others (Felipe Contreras)
- Enable SILC protocol support.
- Don't build static versions of plugin libraries.
- Use more appropriate DESCR and COMMENT.
- Style & delint.
Ok MAINTAINER, Matthew Luckie.
New Features:
* Support for the SILC protocol (http://www.silcnet.org/)
(Pekka Riikonen)
* Option to suppress disconnect notification when using
the autoreconnect plugin (Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
* Added support for dragging buddies from the buddy list into the
Add Buddy Pounce dialog
* Pounce notification now includes time (Mike Lundy)
* The history plugin now shows history for chats in addition to IMs
* Menu item to view conversation logs (Tom Samstag)
* Conversation and chat sizes automatically saved (Stu Tomlinson)
* Added support for Novell privacy settings (Mike Stoddard of Novell)
* Added ability to initiate multi-user conferences (chats) in Novell (Mike
Stoddard of Novell)
* Find and Save buttons on the debug window (Stu Tomlinson)
* Plugin Actions menu (Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
* Plugins can now add entries to the right-click menu of a group or chat
(Stu Tomlinson and Christopher (siege) O'Brien)
* Hyperlink colors are now themeable via your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file
Bug Fixes:
* Compiles again with gcc 2.96 (Ignacio J. Elia)
* Gtk2.0 compatibility fixes (Tim Ringenbach)
* Many documentation updates (Jonathan Champ, Gary Kramlich,
Stu Tomlinson, and Kevin Stange)
* Yahoo works on 64 bit machines (Gary Kramlich)
* Zephyr works on 64 bit machines (Arun A Tharuvai)
* Novell 64bit fixes, better error messages, and buddy list sync fixes
(Mike Stoddard of Novell)
* Novell protocol works on big endian machines (Novell)
* Massive rewrite of MSN support, which should fix a number of issues
and make errors easier to interpret (Felipe Contreras)
* Fixed a privacy-related bug in MSN that affected blocking/permitting,
which was due to case-sensitive string comparisons (Gudmundur Olafsson)
* Fixed an MSN HTTP method bug where MSN would queue data indefinitely.
(Andrew Wellington)
* All known MSN formatting bugs were fixed.
* Overly long messages and paging cell phones in MSN no longer cause
disconnects (Felipe Contreras)
* Several bug fixes for MSN's MSNSLP and MSNObject support (Finlay Dobbie)
* ALT-F works correctly in the System Log Viewer (Stu Tomlinson)
* New tabs should scroll correctly again (Tim Ringenbach)
* Dialogs opened from a conversation window are now closed when
the conversation window is closed, preventing a crash (Kevin Stange)
* Copy/paste encoding fixes (Joe Marcus Clarke)
* IRC disconnect crash fix (Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha)
* Ampersands in links should work correctly (Tim Ringenbach)
* DirectIM and IM Image support for AIM are greatly improved
(Tim Ringenbach)
* Gadu-Gadu updates (Andrew Wellington)
* Print Gadu-Gadu messages to the debug window instead of the console
* Updated and standardized blist signals (Gary Kramlich)
* Made the recieve-*-msg signals match the sending ones (Stu Tomlinson)
* The idle time for the buddy-idle and buddy-unidle signals should
be correct again.
Preference Changes:
* Added "Conversation placement - By conversation count"
* Added a "none" smiley theme to replace the "Show graphical
smileys" option
* Replace default formatting preferences with a dialog to set a
default formatting in a WYSIWYG manner.
* Removed "Show logins in window," default to yes
* Removed "Send URLs as links," default to yes (in protocols that
support HTML)
* Removed "Show URLs as links," default to yes
* Removed New window height & width and Entry field height for Chats & IMs,
sizes are now saved automatically
* Removed "Tab-complete nicks" default to yes
* Removed "Old-style tab completion", no longer supported
* Removed "Sending message removes away status", default to no
* Removed "Show numbers in groups", default to yes
* Removed "Icons on tabs", default to yes
* Removed "Sounds when you log in", default to no
* Removed "Seconds before resending autoresponse", default to 600 seconds
* Removed "Send autoresponse in active conversations", default to no
* Removed "Show people joining in window", default to yes
* Removed "Show people leaving in window", default to yes
New Features:
* The System Log returns (Ka-Hing Cheung)
* Added a conversation-drag-ended signal (Etan Reisner)
* Reorganized and cleaned up the MSN protocol plugin (Felipe Contreras)
* Added the -c option to specify location of the .gaim directory, removed
the outdated -f option that no longer had any effect (Daniel Atallah)
* Novell GroupWise protocol support added (Novell)
* WYSIWYG improvements (Tim Ringenbach)
* WYSIWYG editing for user info (Jon Oberheide)
* Rich-text copy and paste
* Plugins can now add menu items to the buddy context menu
(Christopher O'Brien)
* Plugins can now add preferences (Gary Kramlich)
* The TOC protocol is no longer built by default. The plugin is not
being properly tested and is no longer officially supported.
* Bumped up the plugin API version number, and added version numbers
for loader plugins and protocol plugins. Authors will want to
update their plugins, and possibly use GAIM_PLUGIN_API_VERSION,
GAIM_PRPL_API_VERSION, and GAIM_LOADER_API_VERSION constants.
* Zephyr error reporting works (Arun A. Tharuvai)
* Zephyr deals with non-utf8 characters (Arun A. Tharuvai)
Bug Fixes:
* Formatting in the Log viewer is fixed (Kevin Stange)
* Save Conversation works again (Kevin Stange)
* The Clear button in privacy works (Robert Mibus)
* MSN error reporting works again (Stu Tomlinson)
* MSN e-mail notifications should no longer cause Gaim to crash
(Felipe Contreras)
* Fixed an infinite loop bug that would sometimes cause MSN to lock
up (Nickolai Zeldovich)
* All away messages should now show up in tooltips
* Removing zephyr buddies no longer crashes (Arun A. Tharuvai)
New Features:
* WYSIWYG text input (with much help from Gary Kramlich and Kevin Stange)
* Ability to be invisible on AIM
* Chatroom list support (Tim Ringenbach)
* Added auto-completion for screen names to the New Instant Message and
Get User Info dialogs.
* Non-ascii character support in AIM chats (Uli Luckas and Marco Ziech)
* Vastly improved browser opening, with tab support! (Nathan Fredrickson)
* Added support for connecting to MSN using the port 80 method.
* Support for Mozilla Firefox (Chris Friesen and Nathan Fredrickson)
* Added protocol-specific preferences (Gary Kramlich)
* Local IP address information can be changed in Preferences
(Tim Ringenbach)
* Improved local IP address detection (Tim Ringenbach)
* Offline accounts in account drop-down lists are now greyed (Etan Reisner)
* Improved accessibility support for screen readers and other
accessibility tools (Marc Mulcahy)
* Improved accessibility in conversation windows (Nathan Fredrickson)
* Keyboard access to context menus via Shift+F10 (Marc Mulcahy)
* Core/UI split event loop code. (Scott Lamb)
* Added improvements to the multi-field request code, including
required fields and account fields.
* Moved more dialogs to the request API for interface consistency
(Send Message, Get User Info, and Insert Link dialogs)
* Jabber file transfer
* IRC file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
* Added a hidden preference for disabling buddy list tooltips or
changing the pop-up delay in prefs.xml.
* Moved translation news to po/ChangeLog
Bug Fixes:
* Significant work on the Zephyr plugin (Arun A. Tharuvai)
* You can now use :/ as a smiley safely (Nathan Owens)
* Various buffer overflow fixes (Stefan Esser)
* Tabs now stay green when they are supposed to (Etan Reisner)
* Fixed a bug where only the first user in a chat room list was removed
sometimes when trying to remove a group of users (Tim Ringenbach)
* Clearing an AIM buddy icon actually removes it from the server,
icons changes in the account editor do not take effect if the
cancel button is used (Stu Tomlinson)
* Improved chat parting logic (Tim Ringenbach)
* Yet Another IRC channel user duplication bugfix (Tim Ringenbach)
* Deleting an account while modifying it will no longer crash gaim.
* Only one account preference window will now appear per account when
clicking Modify.
* Aliases are now shown alongside the screen name in the message
queue window. (Kevin Stange).
* TCL Plugin API changed
* The mobile icon on MSN users is now removed when the person disables
mobile paging (Stu Tomlinson)
* Removing invalid buddies in MSN with a space in their name no longer
causes a disconnect (Stu Tomlinson)
* Multiple MSN chats should now work (Robert Mibus)
* Added new MSN error codes and fixed an incorrect one (Stu Tomlinson)
* Incoming colors are now processed correctly in MSN.
* Conversation placement by account now works correctly with both
chats and IMs, and takes the Combine Chats and IMs option into
consideration.
* Minor tweaks to the list box in the multi-field request dialogs
so they work without a label and scrollbar (Pekka Riikonen)
* Hitting enter in a multi-field request dialog when a textfield has
the focus no longer ignores the changed text in the textfield
(Gary Kramlich)
* The Disconnect dialog no longer raises and gains focus each time
a disconnected account is added (Ka-Hing Cheung)
* Gadu-Gadu might actually connect again (Ignacy Gawedzki)
* Buddy pounces for an account are removed when the account is
deleted (Gary Kramlich)
* Various bug and memory leak fixes (Gary Kramlich)
* Assorted SSL crashfixes
* --enable-debug no longer breaks compilation when using gtk 2.4,
which also broke garnome.
* Tooltips shouldn't crash now (Daniel Atallah)
* New Yahoo! auth method
* Yahoo! file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
* Yahoo! chat joining fixes (Tim Ringenbach)
* Persons can auto-expand when hovering your mouse over it
* Improved i18n support for MSN email notification (Felipe Contreras)
* Jabber SASL PLAIN support
* Improved Jabber MUC (Chat) support
* Fixed an MSN login bug some people likely experienced (Felipe Contreras)
* Touch-up various dialogs to follow the Gnome Human Interface
Guidelines more closely (Steven Garrity, Nathan Fredrickson, and
Ka-Hing Cheung)
* Works better with all-black gtk themes (Etan Reisner)
* Mozilla Firebird support (Chris (darth_sebulba04))
* Multiple translation updates
patch to allow gaim connect to MSN using OpenSSL, instead of gnutls.
version 0.74 (11/25/2003):
* Sort-by-size log sorting fix
* Log directory umask fix for users of gaim-remote
* Fix Jabber room creation on MUC servers.
* Vietnamese translation added (T.M.Thanh,M.D.)
version 0.73 (11/21/2003):
* New Logging format and code:
* fixes i18n issues with logs
* compatible with old logs
* hopefully fixes segfault in viewing logs
* New disconnected account dialog (Thanks, Daniel Atallah)
* Fixes several Jabber bugs
* Fixes the bug where some dialogs would crash when spell checking was
enabled. Closes#827930.
* Fixed unblocking of users in MSN (Robert Mibus)
* Fixes outgoing mobile pages on MSN.
* The border on the close buttons on inactive tabs are no longer shown,
thanks to a fix used by Galeon.
* Compatible with autoconf 2.58.
* Cleaned up gtkspell-related code (Robert McQueen)
* Changed the parameters for the received-chat-msg signal.
* Added a Release Notification plugin
* Chinese (Simplified) translation updated (Funda Wang)
* Chinese (Traditional) translation updated (Ambrose C. Li)
* Danish translation updated (Morten Brix Pedersen (mbrix))
* Finnish translation updated (Arto Alakulju)
* French translation updated (Eric Boumaour)
* German translation updated (Bjoern Voigt)
* Hindi trnaslation updated (Ravi (raviratlami))
* Italian translation updated (Claudio Satriano)
* Norwegian translation updated (Petter Johan Olsen)
* Polish translation updated (Emil Nowak)
* Serbian Latin translation updated (Danilo Segan)
* Swedish translation updated (Tore Lundqvist (luntor))
version 0.72 (10/31/2003):
* Added a search feature to conversations.
* Added an option to remove the formatting toolbar, both globally and
on a per-window basis (Nathan Fredrickson)
* Added a drop shadow to the buddy list tooltip
* Smileys are copyable
* Fixed the ICQ login crash
* Fixed a crash in the Add Chat dialog when selecting an
account that doesn't support chats. Closes bug #821606.
* Fixed a bug where new MSN accounts without buddies added wouldn't
connect.
* Fixed a crash when deleting an account that has IMs or chats open.
Closes bug #821630.
* Smileys have background colors
* If SSL is not enabled, MSN will load, but error on connect.
* Disable Jabber SASL auth until the standard stabilizes
* Chinese (Simplified) translation updated (Funda Wang)
* Chinese (Traditional) translation updated (Ambrose C. Li)
* Czech translation updated (Stanislav Brabec, Miloslav Trmac)
* Danish translation updated (Morten Brix Pedersen (mbrix))
* Dutch translation updated (Vincent van Adrighem)
* Finnish translation updated (Arto Alakulju)
* French translation updated (Eric Boumaour)
* German translation updated (Bjoern Voigt)
* Italian translation updated (Claudio Satriano)
* Korean translation updated (Kyung-uk)
* Portuguese (Portugal) updated (Duarte Henriques)
* Romanian translation updated (Misu Moldovan)
* Russian translation updated (Alexandre Prokoudine)
* Serbian translation updated (Danilo Segan)
* Serbian Latin translation updated (Danilo Segan)
* Spanish translation updated (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena)
* Swedish translation updated (Tore Lundqvist (luntor))
to protocols that use SSL):
* The right-click menu for e-mail links now presents a "Copy E-Mail
Address" item
* Fix sort by idle to behave as it did pre-contact support (David
Smock)
* Display AIM away messages in the tooltip for buddies when
they are away
* Support for Buddy Comments for AIM and ICQ buddies
* Window icons are now set as buddy icons or status icons
* Get User Info in MSN and Yahoo now return an error indicating that
the information doesn't exist if the profile is empty (parts by
Nathan Poznick)
* Added startup notification support for window managers that support it.
* The protocol icon for an account in the accounts window will now
"pulse" when signing the account on.
* Zephyr formatting fixes (Arun A. Tharuvai)
* Zephyr can connect to chats (Karsten Huneycutt)
* SSL support can now be provided by third party plugins.
* Multiple copies of gaim installed at different locations no
longer attempt to load the same, possibly incompatible plugins
(Robert McQueen)
* Implemented another new Yahoo! authentication method
* Fixed a bug displaying Chinese MSN messages (Ambrose C. LI).
* Additional fixes and checks for the perl build process (Sean Burke).
* Massive core/UI splitting.
* Re-write of Jabber protocol plugin
* Conversation API changes.
* Some plugins must be updated due to code variable changes,
function name changes, and change of behavior for certain
functions.
* Chinese (Simplified) translation updated (Funda Wang)
* Chinese (Traditional) translation updated (Ambrose C. Li)
* Czech translation updated (Miloslav Trmac)
* Danish translation updated (Morten Brix Pedersen (mbrix))
* Finnish translation updated (Ambrose C. LI (acli))
* French translation updated (Eric Boumaour)
* Italian translation updated (Claudio Satriano)
* German translation updated (Christian Weyer, Bjoern Voigt)
* Serbian translation updated (Danilo Segan)
* Serbian Latin translation updated (Danilo Segan)
* Swedish translation updated (Tore Lundqvist (luntor))
Fixes PR pkg/23173 (connection problems to MSN); initial patch provided by
Matthew Luckie in private mail.
* Added Contact (aka Person, aka Meta-Contact, aka Buddy Merging, etc)
support
* Added MSN 6 smileys.
* Added animated smiley support (Ka-Hing Cheung)
* Added SSL support, compatible with GNUTLS and Mozilla NSS.
* Added plugin IPC.
* Added support for gettext 0.12.x.
* Updated MSN support to the MSN Protocol version 9.
* Jabber now supports SSL
* Yahoo now shows people using the java chat client (Tim Ringenbach)
* Yahoo chat and conference (Tim Ringenbach)
* Yahoo ignore support (Jesse Farmer (farmerje))
* Yahoo idle times displayed, long buddy lists work, sms users,
and other improvements (Tim Ringenbach)
* The accounts window now shows offline accounts as greyed out, and
online accounts as colored.
* Fixed the text replacement plugin.
* Fixed all known signal problems in perl.
* The right-click menu for conversation tabs now shows the tab icon
and status, if tab icons are enabled. (Jesse Farmer)
* Chinese (Simplified) translation updated (Funda Wang)
* Chinese (Traditional) translation updated (Ambrose C. Li, Paladin R.
Liu (prliu))
* Czech translation updated (Miloslav Trmac)
* Danish translation updated (Morten Brix Pedersen (mbrix))
* Dutch translation updated (Vincent van Adrighem)
* Finnish translation updated (Ambrose C. LI (acli))
* French translation updated (Eric Boumaour)
* German translation updated (Bjoern Voigt)
* Italian translation updated (Luca Beltrame, Claudio Satriano)
* Korean translation updated (Kyung-uk Son)
* Polish translation updated (Przemysław Sułek, Krzysztof, and
Emil)
* Portuguese (Brazilian) translation updated (Mauricio de Lemos
Rodrigues Collares Neto)
* Portuguese (Portugal) added (Duarte Henriques)
* Romanian translation updated (Misu Moldovan (dumol))
* Russian translation updated (Alexandre Prokoudine)
* Serbian translation updated (Danilo Segan)
* Serbian Latin translation updated (Danilo Segan)
* Spanish translation updated (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña)
* Swedish translation updated (Tore Lundqvist (luntor))
* Removed the old event system and replaced it with a much better
signal system.
* Added plugin dependency support.
* Rewrote the Perl plugin. All old scripts will break, but it offers
a much better API for new scripts.
* Yahoo color support (Tim Ringenbach (marv_sf))
* Yahoo and MSN get info support (Nathan Poznick)
* Fixed Jabber registrations.
* Fixed a problem where pouncing two users with the same name
appeared in the same conversation window, and other related
problems. (Robot101)
* Corrected problems with proxy preferences.
* Mailchk.c and simple.c compile again (Paul A (darkrain))
* Catalan translation updated (Robert Millan)
* Chinese (Simplified) translation updated (Funda Wang)
* Chinese (Traditional) translation updated (Ambrose C. Li)
* Danish translation updated (Morten Brix Pedersen (mbrix))
* Finish translation updated (Ambrose C. LI (acli))
* German translation updated (Bjoern Voigt)
* Portuguese (Brazilian) translation updated (Mauricio de Lemos
Rodrigues Collares Neto)
* Norwegian translation updated (Petter Johan Olsen)
* Romanian translation updated (Misu Moldovan (dumol))
* Serbian translation updated (Danilo Segan)
* Serbian Latin translation updated (Danilo Segan)
* Swedish translation updated (Tore Lundqvist (luntor))
* Brought back the message notification plugin (Brian Tarricone)
You'll need to reconfigure your settings for this plugin
* IRC protocol plugin rewritten (Ethan Blanton)
* New IRC protocol icon (Nuno Donato)
* Protocol and status icons now optionally appear on tabs.
(Etan Reisner)
* Various dialog rewrites (Jabber vCard, Add Group, Alias Chat,
Rename Group, Privacy)
* Shows "hiptop" icon for AIM buddies using hiptop
devices (Robey Pointer)
* Privacy core/UI split.
* Conversation placement by group now applies to chats in the buddy
list as well.
* Events in a conversation (user logged in, logged out, window closed,
etc.) now grey the tab.
* Various bug fixes (larne from irc, Tim Ringenbach, Bjoern
Voigt, Paul A (darkrain))
* British English "translation" updated (Sam Halliday)
* Chinese (Simplified) translation updated (Funda Wang)
* Chinese (Traditional) translation updated (Ambrose C. Li)
* Danish translation updated (Morten Brix Pedersen)
* Dutch translation updated (Vincent van Adrighem)
* French translation updated (Eric Boumaour)
* German translation updated (Bjoern Voigt)
* Hindi translation added (Guntupalli Karunakar)
* Hungarian translation updated (Zoltan Sutto)
* Italian translation updated (Luca Beltrame, Claudio Satriano)
* Portuguese (Brazilian) translation updated (Mauricio de Lemos
Rodrigues Collares Neto)
* Romanian translation updated (Misu Moldovan (dumol))
* Serbian translation updated (Danilo Segan)
* Spanish translation updated (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena)
* Freebsd compile fix (Matthew Luckie)
* .spec file improvements (Ethan Blanton)
* Added a gaim-remote man page (Robert McQueen)
* The Remote Control plugin no longer adds duplicate groups to your buddy list.
* Servers and ports are now imported correctly in MSN.
* Core/UI split the core initialization and shutdown.
* MSN messages with newlines are now sent correctly to MSN clients.
* Italian translation updated (Claudio Satriano)
* British English "translation" added (Sam Halliday)
* Fix some sound initialization stuff
* Updated Portuguese (Brazilian) translation (Mauricio de Lemos Rodrigues
Collares Neto)
* Updated Czech translation (Miloslav Trmac)
* Fix saving and import of default away message
* French translation updated (Eric (Zongo) Boumaour)
* Portuguese (Brazilian) translation added (Mauricio de Lemos Rodrigues
Collares Neto)
* Korean translation updated (Kyung-uk Son)
* Japanese translation updated (Junichi Uekawa)
* Hebrew translation added (Pavel Bibergal)
* Russian translation updated (Dzmitry Chekmarou)
* Danish translation updated (Morten Brix Pedersen)
* Hungarian translation updated (Zoltan Sutto)
* Italian translation updated (Claudio Satriano)
* Chinses (Simplified) translation updated (Funda Wang)
* Chinese (Traditional) translation updated (Ambrose C. Li)
* Massive internal core/ui splitting
* New account dialog
* Preferences moved to ~/.gaim/prefs.xml
* Account information moved to ~/.gaim/accounts.xml
* Pounces moved to ~/.gaim/pounces.xml
* Added support for the Trepia protocol
* Added protocol icons to various drop-down boxes
* New Send IM buddy icon merged from Ximian Desktop 2
* Fixed "Sort by Status" crash
* Fixed the MSN signon crash
* Fixed the MSN add buddy crash
* Fixed the MSN empty buddy list bug
* Fixed all known MSN chat bugs
* Fixed HTTP redirect handling in smiley retrieval. This fixes the
problems with some smiley themes.
* Chats in MSN can now be initiated by right-clicking a buddy and
choosing Initiate Chat.
* MSN Alerts and incoming MSN pages no longer pop up several error dialogs
* Ability to view iChat "Available" messages for AIM
* Stores your buddy icon on the server for AIM
* Support for non-ascii characters with Yahoo! Messenger
* Focus returns to the input box when you click elsewhere, like it used to
* New typing notification icons from Ximian
* Buddy list sorting in buddy list preferences.
* Improved debug window with timestamps and pause buttons.
* New core/ui split notification and request APIs.
* New mail notification dialog.
* Several bug fixes in MSN.
* Conversation window buddy icon bugs were fixed.
* A rewrite of the plugin API. Plugin authors will need to change their
code based off the changes found in other plugins.
* Perl script support is now provided in the perl plugin.
* Debugging is core/ui split, and has a new API with support for
debug levels and categories.
* Support for adding chats to your buddy list.
* MSN protocol plugin was rewritten, has experimental buddy icon
support, and MSN Mobile support.
* Thanks to all the various people who submitted translation updates.
* Buddy list speed enhancements (Thanks Ethan Blanton).
* Napster protocol updates (Thanks Auke Kok).
Closes PR pkg/21619 by Soren Jacobsen.
* Keyboard shortcuts in the buddy list work again (Thanks Joe Clarke).
* Support for Jabber XHTML messages
* Updated a number of translations. Thanks to everyone who submitted
a translation update.
* Ability to re-request authorization from ICQ and Jabber users by right
clicking on them in your buddy list.
* Improved Zephyr internationalization.
* Bug causing 'Hide on Send' windows to be lost forever fixed.
* Iconified windows are now raised properly.
* Dates printed for old/offline messages.
* Some assorted crash bugs fixed.
Patch provided by Matthew Luckie in private mail; also closes PR pkg/21318
by Juan RP.
gaim-gnome, which will install the GNOME panel applet instead of the stand-
alone client. Based in part on PR 16835 from Julio Merino, with differences
mainly due to the fact that I started this before I was pointed at his PR.
Reviewed by Hubert.
* Hungarian translation added (Thanks, Sutto Zoltan)
* Swedish translation updated (Thanks, Christian Rose)
* Spanish translation updated (Thanks, Alex)
* Traditional Chinese translation updated (Thanks, Paladin Liu)
* Czech translation added (Thanks, Honza)
* Polish translation updated (Thanks Przemyslaw Sulek)
* Squashed a bug in buddy right-click menu handling
that crashed Gaim. In the process: found and
eliminated some memory leaks.
* Fixed a significant applet leak
* Can now change Jabber password on server (Thanks,
Nathan Walp)
* Certain types of Jabber presence errors no longer
falsely show a buddy on-line. Instead now a "broken
light-bulb" icon is shown and the error status is
available via "Get Away Msg" (Thanks and a tip o'
the hat to Christian Hammond for the graphic)
* Conversation struct has pointer to toolbar (thanks Brent
Priddy and Paul Miller)
* Zephyr fixes (thanks, Arun A. Tharuvai)
* Aliases in buddy ticker
* Perl scripts can play Gaim sounds (thanks Andrew Rodland)
* Internal sounds can be played by commands (thanks Lex Spoon)
* Auto-login item in applet menu (thanks Chris Boyle)
* Fixed MSN "Unkown Error Code", "Already there", and
"Already in opposite list" errors
* Changed "Play sound" button to "Mute" button
* You can now have "reserved" chars in IM and proxy passwords
* Jabber now has typing notification (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
* Improved support for Jabber resources (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
* Fixed problem with Gaim crashing on non-ASCII Jabber buddy
aliases (Jabber "name" attribute) chars (Thanks, Ho-seok Lee)
* Plugged memory leaks in Jabber plug-in
* Fixed problem with Jabber away status not being propagated to
conference rooms for jabberd (server) v1.4.2 and above
* Chat room buddy lists are now sorted independent of case
* Added capability for protocol-specific edit buddy menu entries
* Can now remove a Jabber buddy roster item from the server
entirely
* Gaim can now handle messages from Mac ICQ and Miranda ICQ
(Thanks, Mark Doliner)
* Added Mozilla to browser options and changed KFM to
Konqueror.
* Can now set the server and port for MSN and Napster
* MSN Internationalization (Thanks Felipe Contreras and
countless, countless others)
* E-mail addresses are no longer truncated when there is a '.' at
the end.
Patch contributed by Dawid Szymanski <dawszy@tgr.lubin.edu.pl> in private mail.
* Better applet transparency
* Option to raise buddy list on signons/signoffs
* Formatting of incoming MSN messages
* Get Info from menu multiple-account-aware (thanks Brian Bernas)
* Hide and unhide functions for the filectl plugin. (Thanks, Ari Pollak)
* Added helpful stuff to the Help menu.
* Self-aliasing from the account editor.
* Better selection in GtkIMHtml (Thanks Ben Miller)
* A warning when your OSCAR buddy list is too long (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
* ICQ status messages in OSCAR (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
* Play sound when your name is said in a chat
* Approval dialog for Jabber when somebody wants to subscribe to user's
presence. Also gives user the opportunity to add that buddy if not
already on the user's buddy list.
* Jabber "Change buddy group" roster synchronization now works again.
(This was unknowingly broken when the "out-sourced" Jabber libs were
upgraded in 0.56)
* Invalid Jabber I.D.'s no longer crash Gaim. User now notified with pop-up's.
* Jabber Buddy sign-on time support, added in 0.57, removed until and
unless and inconsistency can be resolved. (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
* Bug-fix for potential buffer overflow in Jabber plugin. (Thanks, rwscott)
* Tempfiles used for secure MSN/HotMail login (added in
0.57) are now themselves created securely.
* Secure MSN logins (added in 0.57) no longer blow up on Solaris.
* Timezone support improved.
* New authorization method for Yahoo!
* Jabber will tell you when your buddies signed on (Thanks Nathan Walp)
* Jabber improvements (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
* More keyboard shortcuts
* event_chat_recv takes char**'s, and event_im_recv takes a *guint32 for flags
* Secure hotmail login for MSN (thanks for the tips, Scott Werndorfer)
* Shell-like send history binded to Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down
* libjabber upgraded to most recent stable version
* Buddylist looks a little better
* Fixed MSN privacy settings
* Group deletion fix (Thanks Mark Doliner)
* Alias/Group syncronization for Jabber (Thanks JSeymour)
* Fixed broken signal handling in gdm-started GNOME sessions
(Thanks Jim Seymour, Vann, Robert McQueen)
* Oscar group syncronization (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
* ICQ Authorization via Oscar (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
* Better buddy icon transparency (thanks SeanEgan)
* Fixed a little bug with connecting via proxy (thanks
for reminding me of this, Manish Singh)
* Various jabber bug fixes/enhancements (JSeymour)
* Arrow buttons in log viewer and some other dialogs
work (thanks Ben Miller)
* Option to only send auto-response while idle (thanks
Sean Egan)
* Control time between sending auto-responses (thanks
Mark Doliner)
