version 2.5.3;
Version 2.5.3 (12/20/2008)
* libpurple
o The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer prints duplicate notifications when the same buddy is in multiple groups. (Florian Quèze)
o The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer turns JID's, MSN Passport ID's, etc. into links. (Florian Quèze)
o purple-remote now has a "getstatusmessage" command to retrieve the text of the current status message.
o Various fixes to the nullprpl. (Paul Aurich)
o Fix a crash when accessing the roomlist for an account that's not connected. (Paul Aurich)
o Fix a crash in purple_accounts_delete that happens when this function is called before the buddy list is initialized. (Florian Quèze)
o Fix use of av_len in perl bindings to fix some off-by-one bugs. (Paul Aurich)
o On ICQ, advertise the ICQ 6 typing capability. This should fix the reports of typing notifications not working with third-party clients. (Jaromír Karmazín)
o Many QQ fixes and improvements, including the ability to connect using QQ2008 protocol and sending/receiving of long messages. The recommended version to use is still QQ2005.
o Fix a crash with DNS SRV lookups. (Florian Quèze)
o Fix a crash caused by authorization requests. (Florian Quèze)
* Gadu-Gadu
o Add support for IM images. (Tomasz Sałaciński, Adam Strzelecki)
o Gadu-Gadu now checks that UID's are valid. (Adam Strzelecki)
o Gadu-Gadu now does proper charset translations where needed. (Adam Strzelecki)
* MSN
o Fix an error with offline messages by shipping the new "Microsoft Secure Server Authority" and the "Microsoft Internet Authority" certificates. These are now always installed even when using --with-system-ssl-certs because most systems don't ship those intermediate certificates.
o The Games and Office media can now be set and displayed (in addition to the previous Music media). The Media status text now shows the album, if possible.
o Messages sent from a mobile device while you were offline are now correctly received.
o Server transfers after you've been connected for a long time should now be handled correctly.
o Many improvements to handling of "federated" buddies, such as those on the Yahoo network.
o Several known crashes have been resolved.
o Many other fixes and code cleanup.
* MySpace
o Respect your privacy settings set using the official MySpace client.
o Add support for blocking buddies.
o Fix a bug where buddies didn't appear in their correct groups the first time you sign into your account.
o Properly disconnect and sign out of the service when logging off.
o Support for foreground and background font colors in outgoing IMs.
o Support for background font colors in incoming IMs.
o Many other fixes and code cleanup.
* Sametime
o Fix insanely long idle times for Sametime 7.5 buddies by assuming 0 idle time if the idle timestamp is in the future. (Laurent Montaron)
o Fix a crash that can occur on login. (Raiko Nitzsche)
* SIMPLE
o Fix a crash when a malformed message is received.
o Don't allow connecting accounts if no server name has been specified. (Florian Quèze)
* XMPP
o Fix the namespace URL we look for in PEP reply stanzas to match the URL used in the 'get' requests (Paul Aurich)
o Resources can be set to the local machine's hostname by using __HOSTNAME__ as the resource string. (Jonathan Sailor)
o Resources can now be left blank, causing the server to generate a resource for us where supported. (Jonathan Sailor)
o Resources now default to no value, but "Home" is used if the server refuses to provide a resource.
o Quit trying to get user info for MUC's. (Paul Aurich)
o Send "client-accepts-full-bind-result" attribute during SASL login. This will fix Google Talk login failures if the user configures the wrong domain for his/her account.
o Support new <metadata/> element to indicate no XEP-0084 User Avatar. (Paul Aurich)
o Fix SHA1 avatar checksum errors that occur when one of the bytes in a checksum begins with 0. (Paul Aurich)
o Fix a problem with duplicate buddies. (Paul Aurich)
* Yahoo
o Corrected maximum message lengths for Yahoo!
o Fix file transfers with older Yahoo protocol versions.
* Zephyr
o Enable auto-reply, to emulate 'zaway.' (Toby Schaffer)
o Fix a crash when an account is configured to use tzc but tzc is not installed or the configured tzc command is invalid. (Michael Terry)
o Fix a 10 second delay waiting on tzc if it is not installed or the configured command is invalid. (Michael Terry)
* Pidgin
o On GTK+ 2.14 and higher, we're using the gtk-tooltip-delay setting instead of our own (hidden) tooltip_delay pref. If you had previously changed that pref, add a line like this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0 (where 500 is the timeout (in ms) you want):
gtk-tooltip-timeout = 500
To completely disable tooltips (e.g. if you had an old tooltip_delay of zero), add this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0:
gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
o Moved the release notification dialog to a mini-dialog in the buddylist. (Casey Ho)
o Fix a crash when closing an authorization minidialog with the X then immediately going offline. (Paul Aurich)
o Fix a crash cleaning up custom smileys when Pidgin is closed.
o Fix adding a custom smiley using the context menu in a conversation if no custom smilies have previously been added using the smiley manager.
o Improved support for some message formatting in conversations.
o Allow focusing the coversation history or userlist with F6.
o Fixed the Send Button plugin to avoid duplicate buttons in a single conversation.
o Double-clicking a saved status will now activate it and close the saved status manager, rather than edit the status.
* Finch
o Allow binding meta+arrow keys for actions.
o Added default meta+erase binding for delete previous word.
o Added "Show When Offline" to buddy menus, so a plugin is no longer needed.
Version 2.5.2 (10/19/2008)
* libpurple
o Fixed a crash on removing a custom buddy icon on a buddy.
o Fixed a crash caused by certain self-signed SSL certificates.
o Enable a number of strong ciphers which were previously disabled when using NSS. (Thanks to Marcus Trautwig.)
* Pidgin
o The status selector now saves your message when changing status.
o Fix a case where a conversation window could close unexpectedly.
o A mute sounds option has been added to the preferences window to help with discoverability. CTRL+S is no longer bound to mute.
o Added ability to change the color of visited links (using the theme control plugin, or setting the color in ~/.gtkrc-2.0)
o Fix a crash occuring when a custom smiley is deleted and re-added and used in an open conversation after being re-added.
* Finch
o A new 'Nested Grouping' option in the 'Grouping' plugin. Group hierarchies are defined by the '/' character in the group names.
o A bug was fixed where some key-bindings wouldn't work with some TERMs (e.g. xterm-color, screen-linux etc.)
* MSN
o Operations (such as moving to a new group) on contacts that were added in the same session should now complete correctly, and not cause synchronization errors at next login.
o Minor fixes to login process during a server transfer.
o Restored the "Has You" feature to the MSN protocol tooltips.
o ADL 205/214/etc errors should no longer prevent login.
* XMPP
o Sending and receiving custom smileys using the specification in XEP-0231 (bits of binary) and XHTML-IM
* Yahoo
o Only send a Ping once every hour. This prevents the account from being disconnected from the server periodically.
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.
i) CVE-2008-2927 fix
ii) the previous version was being rejected from the ICQ network.
version 2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
libpurple:
* Yahoo! Japan now uses UTF-8, matching the behavior of official clients
and restoring compatibility with the web messenger (Yusuke Odate)
* Setting your buddy icon once again works for Yahoo! accounts.
* Fixes in the Yahoo! protocol to prevent a double free, crashes on
aliases, and alias functionality
* Fix crashes in the bonjour protocol
* Always use UTF-8 for Yahoo! (#5973)
* Fix a crash when the given jabber id is invalid.
* Make the IRC "unknown message" debugging messages UTF-8 safe.
* Fix connecting to ICQ
* Fix a memleak when handling jabber xforms.
Pidgin:
* Include the send button plugin in the win32 build
* Various memory leak fixes
o In MySpaceIM, messages from spambots are discarded (Justin Williams)
o Strip mIRC formatting codes from quit and part messages.
o IRC now displays ban lists in-channel for joined channels.
o Fixed a bug where the list of loaded plugins would get removed when
switching between different operating systems.
o Fix reception of IRC PART without a part message on Undernet
(fixes a problem with litter in the channel user list).
o IRC no longer crashes on /list on servers which erroneously omit RPL_LISTSTART
o Update the NetworkManager support to use D-Bus directly, instead of
libnm-glib. Hopefully it's stable now. It will now compile by default if you
have D-Bus support and NetworkManager.h. (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
o MSN buddy list synchronization is now more forgiving, only asking about
buddies who have disappeared completely from the server list and not those
that have simply moved groups.
o IRC will now try to append 1-9 to your nick if it is in use, instead of
substituting the last character with 1-9 where possible.
o Bonjour buddies will be saved persistently if they're moved out of the
"Bonjour" group. (Eion Robb)
* Treat AIM Unicode messages as UTF-16 rather than UCS-2; this should have no functional effect, other than continued support on systems which have dropped UCS-2 conversions.
* Add support for setting buddy icons on Gadu-Gadu (Tomasz Salacinski)
* Fix a crash when clearing the buddy icon for an account on XMPP
* Fix a crash during login for some ICQ accounts
* Prefer more available resources on XMPP when priorities are equal
* Fix incorrectly marking some Yahoo! contacts as blocked
* Improved handling of UTF-8 group names on ICQ (beret)
* Fix a crash when starting if you have a Zephyr account
* Increase XMPP ping timeout to 120 seconds, to prevent poor network connections from timing out unnecessarily.
* Don't crash on XMPP forms with empty default values.
* Fix issues with CHAP authentication for SOCKS5 proxies.
libpurple:
* Added support for offline messages for AIM accounts (thanks to
Matthew Goldstein)
* Fixed various problems with loss of status messages when going
or returning from idle on MySpaceIM.
* Eliminated unmaintained Howl backend implementation for the
Bonjour protocol. Avahi (or Apple's Bonjour runtime on win32) is
now required to use Bonjour.
* Partial support for viewing ICQ status notes (Collin from
ComBOTS GmbH).
* Support for /notice on IRC.
* Support for Yahoo! Messenger 7.0+ file transfer method (Thanumalayan S.)
* Support for retrieving full names and addresses from the address book
on Yahoo! Japan (Yusuke Odate)
* The AIM/ICQ server-side preference for "allow others to see me
as idle" is no longer unconditionally set to "yes" even when
your libpurple preference is "no."
* Fix SSL certificate checks for renewed certificates
* Fix the ability to set vCard buddy icons on Google Talk/XMPP
* D-Bus fixes on 64bit
* Fixed retrieval of buddy icons and setting of server-side aliases on
Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan when using an HTTP proxy server (Gideon N.
Guillen)
* Fixed an MSN bug that would leave you appearing offline when transferred
to different server
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
vulnerability CVE-2007-4996:
"MSN nudges sent from unknown buddies can cause libpurple to crash"
Other changes:
libpurple:
* A few build issues on Solaris were fixed.
* Cancelling the password prompt for an account will no longer leave
it in an ambiguous state. (It will be disabled.)
* Fixed an erroneous size display for MSN file transfers. (galt)
* Fixed multiple memory leaks, particularly in XMPP and MySpace protocols
* Fixed remembering proxy preferences and status scores
* Gmail notifications are better tracked
Pidgin:
* Fixed keyboard tab reordering to move tabs one step instead of two.
* You should no longer lose proxy settings when Pidgin is restarted.
* Fixed detection of X11 when compiling
Finch:
* Pressing 'Insert' in the buddylist will bring up the 'Add Buddy'
dialog.
The intltool that comes bundled with libpurple doesn't like NetBSD's
/usr/bin/iconv, so switch libpurple to use intltool from pkgsrc.
ChangeLog:
Version 2.2.0 (09/13/2007):
http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.0
Libpurple:
* New protocol plugin: MySpaceIM (Jeff Connelly, Google Summer of
Code)
* XMPP enhancements. See
http://www.adiumx.com/blog/2007/07/soc-xmpp-update.php (Andreas
Monitzer, Google Summer of Code for Adium)
* Certificate management. Libpurple will validate certificates on
SSL-encrypted protocols (William Ehlhardt, Google Summer of Code)
* Some adjustments were made to fix sending messages when using
the MSN HTTP method. (Laszlo Pandy)
* Yahoo! Chat is fixed.
* Some AIM file transfer issues between Pidgin and other clients
have been fixed. (Kyryll A Mirnenko)
* Properly restore idle status and time for AIM and ICQ accounts
when they reconnect after being disconnected.
Pidgin:
* Insert Horizontal Rules and Strikethrough text from toolbar.
* Option to show protocol icons in the buddy list, from the
Buddies > Show menu. (Justin Heiner)
* Ability to build with native, non-X11 GTK+ on OSX. (Anders
Hasselqvist)
* Remember the 'Enable Sounds' setting for a conversation.
* Right-clicking the empty space in the formatting toolbar
allows you to toggle back to the old "ungrouped" version.
* Protocols supporting account registration via Pidgin now show
a descriptive checkbox instead of a vague "Register" button.
* Fixed a bug where a tab would be shown on single conversations
when tabs were disabled.
Finch:
* Per-conversation mute and logging options (accessible from the menu).
Version 2.1.1 (08/20/2007):
Yahoo:
* Added an account action to open your inbox in the yahoo prpl.
* Added support for Unicode status messages in Yahoo.
* Server-stored aliases for Yahoo. (John Moody)
* Fixed support for Yahoo! doodling.
* Limited support for MSN Messenger contacts
Bonjour:
* Bonjour plugin uses native Avahi instead of Howl
* Bonjour plugin supports Buddy Icons
XMPP:
* Only report conversation close when 'send typing notifications'
preference is turned on (Bob Rossi)
Pidgin:
* Show current outgoing conversation formatting on the font label on
the toolbar
* Slim new redesign of conversation tabs to maximize number of
conversations that can fit in a window
* Tab bar is not visible when only one conversation is open. You can
drag and drop conversations from the infopane.
* Moved "Reset Formatting" toolbar button to Font menu.
* Double click on the infopane to alias buddies and set topics
on chats
* New smiley style
Finch:
* Sound support (Eric Polino)
Updates of pidgin and finch will follow shortly.
pkgsrc changes are some cleanup and removal of the 900kB patch-ac.
I'm not sure if this will break anything, but nobody knew the reason
of it's existence. Any fallout should be dealt with appropriately instead.
Maintainer reset to pkgsrc-users@ at previous maintainer's wish.
version 2.1.0 (07/28/2007):
libpurple:
* Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling.
Pidgin and Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use
g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows
glib to better group our longer timers to increase power efficiency.
(Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
* No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part
notifications in chats
* With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved.
NOTE: Saved images are not yet displayed when loading logs.
* Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov)
version 2.0.2 (06/14/2007):
libpurple:
* Moving an ICQ buddy from one group to another no longer
re-requests authorization from that person (Rene Hausleitner)
* Added nullprpl, an example protocol plugin (Ryan Barrett)
* Fixed SOCKS5 bug which caused Jabber file receiving to fail
* Remove MSN's random "Authorization Failed" dialogs
* Fix MSN to correctly detect incorrect passwords and disable the account
* Get User Info on MSN is now more reliable & accurate
* Updated SILC protocol to support SILC Toolkit 1.1 (Pekka Riikonen)
* Fix for some QQ authentication problems
* Fix for building on FreeBSD
* Prevent "Logged in:" times for AIM buddies being ridiculously high
* Updates and fixes to Bonjour support
* Improve ICQ encoding support for some non-latin languages
