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Version 1.69
* Buddy list not shown (everyone falsely shown as offline).
Version 1.68
* Support for new group chats
* Fix for setting status messages
* Fix for when FB chat is down for maintenance
Version 1.67
* Plugin works with new 'Account Security'/'device login'/'register your
computer' login security feature
Version 1.66
* Fix for crash on account creation
* Fix for status messages showing as "like/unlike" rather than the status
message
Version 1.65
* Fix for new buddy icons being too small
* Download all buddies at startup, not just online ones
Version 1.64
* Fix some friend requests not going away
* Fix buddy icons not working for some people
* Fix for logging out of browser while using plugin
* Fix for buddies with hearts in their status messages
* Fix for 'Get Info' screen not working (and eating up CPU)
Version 1.63
* Fix buddy icons not downloading for some people
* FB inbox message count shows in buddy list again
* Fix for status messages not downloading
* Fix for accepting/rejecting/adding buddies
Version 1.62
* Fix for captcha causing crashes on Windows (the new captcha doesn't work
though)
* Fix for not getting buddy list/logging out issues/protocol changes
* Only complain about not being able to fetch buddy list after 3 attempts
Version 1.61
* An option to disable friends lists/groups in advanced account settings
* Fixes for 64-bit UID's so no more messages from people/yourself being in
wrong window (thanks to Evan Schoenberg)
* Now requires json-glib version 0.7.6 or later (included in the Windows
installer)
* Uses less memory after reconnecting a few times (thanks to Jan Kaluza)
* Fix for notifications not showing for some people
* Fix for buddies being added over and over to the same group
* Fix for every message you send being received back to yourself
* Regression: buddy status messages no longer show due to a change from
Facebook
Version 1.60
* Facebook groups/friend lists
* Handles bad logins for some people (Facebook captcha)
* Fix missing buddy icons (kinda, need to delete existing buddy icons)
* Fix status message setting not working
* Fix crash on Windows
* Fix weird 1969 dates on 32-bit Linux systems
* Fix for other miscellaneous crashes
* Regression: not all idle buddies appear away
Version 1.54
* Added an option to disable history
* Users are now away and idle, not just idle
* AIM links work in 'Get Info'/Profile screen
* Fix buddy names not being shown straight away
* Fix for a crash on 64-bit Linux
* Fix a crash in friends checking when there's no data
* Some code cleanups
* ARMEL version no longer needs latest version of glib, but will not style
incomming messages
Version 1.53
* IM History displays when opening a conversation window
* Improved RSS/notifications code
* 'New inbox message' count optional, set using "New mail notifications" in
account settings
* Fix missing buddy icons
* Fix dropped/missed messages
* Fix for crash on 64-bit Linux
* Fix to set status messages when marked as 'away' in Pidgin
* Fix for 'get info' screen for people with usernames (Thanks to hanzz.k)
* Fix for 'numbers instead of aliases'
* Fix some memleaks
* Regression: No longer marks messages as read in Facebook website
* Regression: Does not work with 64-bit UID's
Version 1.52
* Quick release to fix a crash that occurs sometimes
Version 1.51
* Fix idle status of buddies
* Less disconnects for people with large friends lists
* gzip compression for smaller page downloads
* Fixes for notifications for non-English users
* Display messages sent from website in Pidgin
* Inbox count display
* Usernames and/or passwords with utf-8 characters should work now
* Display *bold* and _underline_ formatting in incoming messages
* Memleak fixes
* Proxy server fixes
* Fixed some crashes on disconnect
* Fixes some buddy's appearing offline when they weren't
* New channel finding code, should mean less conflicts with Facebook website
* Uses json-glib library for parsing buddy list and is a required dependency
Version 1.50
* Should fix bandwidth usage problems
* Fix a crash-on-quit bug
* Can set status to 'idle' by changing to 'away' in Pidgin
* Sends correct local language for using non-default languages (eg English) in
other countries (eg Japan)
Version 1.47
* Removes the "(via Pidgin)" part of the status message
* Fixes some rare crashes
Version 1.46
* Added pokes!
* Improved idle/away behavior
* Buddy aliases also behave better now
* Buddy icons are now uniformly large
Version 1.45
* Added plugin version info to menu for easier updates
* Fixed a bug related to idle time
* Fixed a number of small memory leaks
* Fixed a rare crash
Version 1.44
* Fixes a couple of crashes
Version 1.43
* .deb Package works for Finch and libpurple installs
* Fixed setting of status messages again
* Fixed crash when getting info on a buddy too quickly at startup
Version 1.42
* Fixed a crash on Windows if the debug window was showing
Version 1.41
* More crash fixes
* Notification fixes
* New layout of source tarball
* Minimum version of Pidgin needed now 2.3.0
Version 1.40
* Stability improvements (no more crashes)
Version 1.39
* Large buddy icons are back!
* Chat windows close on Facebook when closing chat windows in Pidgin
* Fix for offline buddies showing in buddy list
* Fix for high bandwidth problems
* Fix for notification feeds not showing as emails in Pidgin
Version 1.38
* Some crashing fixes
* Stores url of buddy icon to stop icon being downloaded more than once
* Uses smaller buddy icons to decrease bandwidth
Version 1.37
* Fixes receiving an error message of "lol" or "Test" when sending a message
Version 1.36
* Fixed startup crash which would say "No error." before promptly dying, should
also fix some random disconnects
* Fixed the 'Get Info' and 'Buddy Search' screens
* Fixed the 'All buddys re-added' bug that happened when renaming the Facebook
group however this means...
* Buddies cannot be removed from the Pidgin buddy list anymore. If you do, they
will be re-added when the buddy list is synced
Version 1.35
* Fix for new Facebook message type that was causing crashes
* Fix so that if the facebook.com IP address isn't found, Pidgin won't crash
* Fix buddy statuses being updated properly
Version 1.34
* Minor update to make the plugin work with the Facebook iPhone app
Version 1.33
* Lots of stability fixes (mainly for Windows users)
* Memory leak fixes
* Using the "Set Facebook status through Pidgin status" option won't send lots
of updates to Facebook
* Less problems with appearing offline to other Facebook users
Version 1.32
* Made it easier for people using the new Facebook layout to use the plugin (no more having to change the Host in the Advanced settings)
* Fixed up the Get Info to get rid of the useless links and to fix the profile
link at the bottom
* Shouldn't use 100% cpu now if the server asks us to refresh the connection
Version 1.31
* Get Info works for the new Facebook layout
Version 1.30
* Fix for those people using the new Facebook layout - edit the Facebook
account, and set the Host to "www.new.facebook.com" (without the quotes), in
the Advanced section
Version 1.29
* Buddy info should have the buddy name and status (if any)
* Buddy info can be accessed from search box for buddies not on your buddy list
but only for those buddies that allow it
* Fix for occasional crash (new type of message being sent by Facebook)
* Online buddies won't show as going Online->Online in system log any more
Version 1.28
* A few more fixes for the 'crash on logout' problem
* If you have the option to hide yourself in the buddy list on, you wont appear
online when sending messages any more
* A big version of the profile picture will appear in the 'get info' screen
* A 1 second delay in re-sending messages after an error means you'll get less
"Error: Destination not online" messages
* Removing the alias from a buddy wont make it only show numbers in the buddy
list
* Buddies with } in their status won't stuff up your buddy list
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.
Version 1.27
* Cleaned up the buddy "Get Info" screen a bit
* Fixed up a couple of compiler warnings
* You are now hidden on your own contact list by default
Version 1.26
* A few minor security fixes
* Incomming messages with HTML-like text are displayed properly
* Usernames and passwords with funny characters (like +) in them should work
Version 1.25
* Plugin will automatically reconnect if the messages stop downloading
* Logging you out of the plugin wont log you out of Facebook
* Buddies will appear online when typing and sending messages to you
* No DNS lookups for proxies
Version 1.24
* Some fixes to the friends search
* Messages can be auto-resent if they don't get through (buddy offline etc)
Version 1.23
* You can now search for friends from the account menu (Account->Facebook->Search for friends...)
Version 1.22
* Fixed receiving multiple notifications
* Local alias in Pidgin will be set if you havn't set it
Version 1.21
* Notifications (Inbox/Friends) appear as new emails in Pidgin
