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Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
Our development blog is available at: http://planet.pidgin.im
2.8.0 (06/07/2011):
Paul: I fixed a few things in this release, and committed some
patches, but am being vague because I can't remember any specifics.
Hopefully you enjoy this, and happy May!
John: Wow, this release has taken forever. But there are a crapload
of patches that have been committed this time around, a lot of them by
me. The infamous MSN bugs are still outstanding, but otherwise this
release has brought some excellent progress. Oh, and we dropped the
hasn't-quite-worked-in-ages QQ plugin, too. Enjoy!
Jorge: I managed to get one patch applied! Wii for end of semester!
2.7.11 (03/10/2011):
John: Yet another release. This time around we finally fixed that
annoying MSN buddy adding problem and a security issue in Yahoo. You
know the drill--upgrade already!
2.7.10 (02/06/2011):
John: It's release time again. This release contains a bunch of stuff
committed from Trac. This is another "thank a patch writer" release.
Unfortunately, no one has fixed our wonderful MSN issues yet. There is
a tiny security fix in this release, as well.
2.7.9 (12/26/2010):
John: Just a quick release for a security fix here. Elliott has not
yet had a chance to work on the MSN breakage that's been present in
the last couple releases, but we hope he can do it before 2.7.10!
2.7.8 (12/19/2010):
Elliott: OK, so I know a few things broke with the last release, and
it's too bad we had to rush it for that silly certificate thing that
the MSN people can't configure properly. I've certainly done a lot of
small fixes this time, but it's too bad we haven't been able to get the
transfers with the official client fixed yet. I promise it'll be in
the next release (barring any quick security issues).
John: So, it's been about a month since we last released. Again, we've
assembled a bugfix release for your enjoyment. While a few commonly
reported bugs remain, particularly in MSN, we're working on it for the
next release. In the meantime, Merry Christmas and enjoy!
2.7.7 (11/23/2010):
John: Well, this time around, we should finally have the certificate
issue really and fully fixed for all of you MSN users. Also, we have
a few AIM-related fixes in this release, most notably the fix for the
new "SSL Handshake Failure" message some of you got after upgrading.
That one was an oversight on our part. Enjoy the fixes!
2.7.6 (11/21/2010):
Jorge: In this release I have merged two branches where I have spent
most of my time in the last months, the MSNP16 and SLP-rewrite. I
hope you all will enjoy the hability to be connected on multiple
instances at the same time. I also hope that the SLP rewrite
fix a lot of old bugs that we have in the tracker. I am really
happy with this rewrite because there was untoched code from almost
5 years ago. I hope you like this release!
John: In this release, we give you some new features and a bunch of
bug fixes. This includes shipping intermediate certificates to fix
certificate validation for MSN's servers. Upgrade and enjoy!
2.7.5 (10/31/2010):
John: A bugfix release for all of you! This time we fixed a bunch of
bugs ranging from annoying regressions to long-standing bugs we didn't
realize until now were bugs. Enjoy!
2.7.4 (10/20/2010):
John: This release came at this particular time due to some security
issues Daniel discovered for us when investigating a bug. There are
a ton of other changes, including some partial Yahoo file transfer
fixes and a bunch of other little things. Enjoy!
2.7.3 (08/10/2010):
Mark: Lots of little incremental[1] bug fixes and enhancements in this
release.
[1] No whales were harmed[2] during the creation of this release.
[2] Probably.
John: Finally got some fixes out there for you Yahoo users behind some
particularly annoying firewalls and proxies, among other fixes. Enjoy!
2.7.2 (07/21/2010):
Mark: 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.
2.7.1 (05/29/2010):
Elliott: Hey, I'm first! How did that happen?! Maybe because of the
interesting changes in this release. Sure there were quite a few bug
fixes, but I know what you've all been waiting for is the direct
connections in MSN. Trust me, it's really really fast!!
John: Whoa, short turnaround for us. This is just 17 days after our
previous release! This fixes a number of bugs that you've all been
reporting a ton of duplicate tickets about and even gives you the new
direct connection file transfer support for MSN. Enjoy!
Marcus: Quite a bit quicker to get this release out, compared with the
previous one :). Fixes a number of bugs, and I'm sure the MSN direct
connections will please many users. Enjoy!
2.7.0 (05/12/2010):
John: We FINALLY got the ICQ X-Status stuff merged in! And a few other
patches that have been sitting on Trac forever. Couple that with some
new features and we have an excellent release for all of you!
Marcus: Finally time for a new release, seems like it took
quite a while this time. But then again, there are some new features
in there, like file transfer preview (thumbnails) support (only on MSN
so far), plus a lot of bug fixes. Enjoy!
Paul: Yay, a new release! I don't think I added very much useful to
this release, other than fixing a paste bug from Chrome (no weird
characters appended to the end of your URI). Enjoy!
Jorge: This is my first NEWS! I'm not sure I added something nice
to this release. I know it took a lot of time to bring this one
out, however I'm really excited by this release. I hope everyone
likes the new features this release brings.
Elliott: This release took so long, I had to go check the ChangeLog
just to see what happened. I doubt many people will notice, but we
dropped support for many old things, like GTK+<2.10 and MSNP9. In more
exciting news, we have file transfer previews on MSN, and support for
setting moods on ICQ and XMPP (which has been waiting forever.)
2.6.6 (02/18/2010):
Mark: This release includes some great little changes and fixes a few
security-related bugs. See the ChangeLog for details.
2.6.5 (01/08/2010):
Paul: This release fixes a pretty serious bug in the MSN code, so we're
releasing this build a little earlier than planned with only major
bugs fixed. See the ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
2.6.4 (11/29/2009):
John: It's release time again. Lots of bug fixes this time around, as
well as a new protocol plugin developed and maintained by the MXit folks
folks. Elliott and I also did a ton of work on the Preferences window,
which will now hopefully fit on most people's small screens. Enjoy!
Elliott: This release has been in the works for so long, I don't really
remember doing any work on it. But I do know the MSN servers gave us a
little bit of trouble this time around, forgetting people's friendly
names. Nothing too problematic, just a touch annoying. Also, we've got
a nice new Preferences dialog. You can thank John for that mostly, with
a couple of tweaks by me.
Sadrul: A lot of little fixes for a lot of things! Among them, a fix
for a long standing issue with displaying unicode in non-utf8 locale in
finch. We also have a new prpl for MXit. This release is very very cool
altogether. Enjoy!
2.6.3 (10/16/2009):
Mark: Someone reported a fairly serious bug in our AIM/ICQ code
so we're releasing a special "severe bug fix only" build. See the
ChangeLog for details. Enjoy!
2.6.2 (09/05/2009):
Mark: Woo boy it's been a busy two weeks. There was a lot of new code
in 2.6.0, and with new code comes new bugs. The cadre of relentless
developers responsible for Pidgin have been hard at work, and I believe
they have fixed all the major bugs that cropped up. My thanks to all
those names listed as Current Developers in Pidgin's 'About' window.
Elliott: Well now, just as Mark said, there was a lot of new stuff that
probably came up with tons of bugs. So I can't say I wrote anything
super-awesome, but I definitely fixed quite a few of those itty-bitty
why-didn't-this-work-this-way sort of bugs.
2.6.1 (08/18/2009):
Mark: There were a lot of changes in 2.6.0, and so a few major bugs
crept in. This is a very minor release to fix those bugs. Sorry for
the inconvenience!
2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
John: Wow, four straight releases that I'm the first to NEWS on. This
is getting kinda scary! I'm beginning to wonder who else actually does
anything around here! (Just kidding, of course.) LOTS of new features
and a crapton of bugfixes this release. There should pretty much be
something for everybody. A great example of this is the ton of Yahoo
changes that have happened thanks to our SoC student from 2008, Sulabh
Mahajan. Among his massive improvements are the ability to add MSN
buddies by adding them as "msn/[email protected]" and peer-to-peer file
transfers. Of course, history shows we can't please everyine, so I'm
sure I'll see a complaint or five thousand in trac. Enjoy, though!
Marcus: This is my first news! It's been quite a few microreleases this
time, but now we're finally at 2.6.0. I suppose the most anticipated
new feature in this release is the voice and video support, thanks to
Mike's heroic work. I've managed to slip in a few features too, like
in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time
reporting on XMPP. Enjoy!
Paul: This is my first news, too! This release has definitely been a
long time coming; hopefully it won't disappoint since we've closed over
200 tickets. Among other things, Tobias Markmann's GSoC project from
last year was merged, which means we now support BOSH (XMPP connections
over HTTP), and Andrei Mozzhuhin contributed an XMPP Service Discovery
Browser. Also, thanks to Bernmeister for poking (at least) several
hundred old tickets!
Mike: Ditto. This is my first news as well. I have a feeling this is
getting repetitive at this point, but voice and video support is
finally here! Thanks to the rest of the Pidgin team, Farsight 2, and
GStreamer developers for making this possible! (I finally finished my
Summer of Code project :D)
Elliott: Hey, this is my firs... Wait, no it isn't. Now I feel left
out. So have you heard about this voice and video thing?
Unfortunately, not quite ready for all protocols, but it's getting
there. MSN gained support for receiving voice clips at least, and
finally we have Ink receiving capabilities too. Thanks to the guys
who wrote the original patch. And finally, MSN no longer has over a
100 tickets open!
2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
John: This release is just a crash fix release to address a security
issue reported to us by CORE and a couple crashes Elliott found.
2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
John: This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.
Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be
less broken. Enjoy!
2.5.7 (06/20/2009):
John: This release is really just a rushed fix for the broken Yahoo
protocol plugin. I spent way more time on this release than I care
to admit, so I hope that time is well spent and this fixes the issues
people have been having.
2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
Ka-Hing: Many much bugfixes. Hooray. (Paul told me to say that)
Oh, no one has met Paul yet? He's awesome, he backported my fixes
to the release branch so I didn't have to checkout a
workspace... except I just did to NEWS to tell you all about
that. Oh and I actually did do something for this release, none of
which is user visible though. This basically applies to the rest
of the release as well, nothing exciting, but you definitely want
it.
Daniel: This should fix a number of annoying issues that some users
have encountered. We also would like to thank Veracode
(http://www.veracode.com) who performed a code analysis and found some
bugs that were addressed in this release.
Elliott: I feel like I'm repeating myself, but there are some more MSN
fixes that should make things better behaved at login as well, and
maybe you'll stop getting some of those annoying errors (though not all
are fixed yet). Some other bugfixes, plus the craziness that is the
libxml "structured error handler" make up the rest of this release.
2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
John: Well, yet another release with bug fixing and patches. Hopefully
one of the fixed bugs is one that irritated you. Also, thank Dimmuxx
for spending far too much time working on ICQ this release.
Elliott: Lots and lots of MSN bugfixes again (I hope they're fixed, at
least). I think we finally have OCS/Yahoo!/federated buddies working
now. And there should be some workarounds for some server things that
may or may not have been our fault (like buddies on Allow+Block) which
should make general usage a bit smoother.
2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
John: Well, we fixed a few bugs for you this time around, I applied
a few patches, and we've dealt with what feels like a TON of tickets
about two very common issues. Feels like time for a release to me.
Etan: My first NEWS in quite a while and I don't have much to say. I
haven't been too active lately and I'm hoping that won't be the case
going forward. I managed to get in a few perl fixes and some UI
language tweaks this release. My plan is to work on some of the
issues pointed out by mpt (during his expert review of pidgin a little
while back) in the near future.
2.5.3 (12/18/2008):
Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing
bugs. Enjoy!
Kevin: I didn't do much of anything this release, but Mark and
John must be commended for their tireless efforts to fix bugs
and approve patches, especially in areas of Pidgin that have
not usually received much attention. Lots of changes have
been made, so definitely check the ChangeLog to see what's new.
John: It feels like it's been an age or two since we last released,
and I think it's well worth the wait. Mark has sunk more time into
MSN and MySpace IM this release than any sane person should be
allowed to, and I've sunk more time into patches than I care to
admit. By my count, our ChangeLog has 58 bullet points(!) and we've
closed 85 tickets specifically for this release. Enjoy!
Ka-Hing: Bring your XMPP server to 2008 some time in 2009 would be
nice, DreamHost!
Elliott: Well, I can't blame the server for this release taking so long
but that's just how it worked out. A few interesting MSN changes this
time. Hopefully, federated & Yahoo! buddies will work for you, but I'm
not yet certain it's ready. Mark made so many fixes, I'm not even sure
I recognize everything anymore, but hopefully that'll make things less
crashy for you.
2.5.2 (10/19/2008):
Ethan: After a bit of a struggle with our services, which put
this release off for an unfortunate length of time, we're
ready for another bugfix release for your bug-free(er?)
messaging pleasure.
Sadrul: Despite our best efforts, this release got delayed by a
couple of weeks. But here it is! It is mostly a bug fix release, with
a couple of important fixes, e.g. fix for the Yahoo! disconnect
problem. Also, welcome our newest Crazy Patch Writer, Marcus Lundblad,
who, among various other fixes, has implemented custom smileys for the
XMPP protocol, included in this release. Enjoy!
Stu: I guess this is the time of year for server migrations, and
I've just about had enough of them. Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
and this release should be superb.
John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
it to us. Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
release far longer than we expected. Hopefully the bugfixes make you
happy!
Elliott: This release took a while, but that was due to an unfortunate
server snafu. I didn't have much to do with it, but hopefully the new
servers will help us out a bit. Anyway, mostly bug-fixes this time.
Nothing spectacular, unless you happen to suffer from one of those bugs.
Oh, and don't forget, the "Has you" tooltip is back!
2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release. It solves a few
known crashes and updates some of our artwork. Google's Summer of
code recently finished up. Some of our students are still working
on their branches and none have been merged into released code yet.
Look for some of those results to show up in Pidgin releases over the
coming months.
Elliott: I'm just commenting so Kevin wouldn't be the only one in NEWS
and no-one else seems to want to. Anyway, there's a couple MSN login
fixes, so try it out. The contact list problems might still be around,
but you can probably find a workaround in trac. And there's a tooltip
fix for our AIM friends, not that I had anything to do with it (except
closing many many duplicate tickets).
2.5.0 (08/17/2008):
Daniel: Lots of good stuff in this release. Lots of people have worked
very hard on the updated MSN protocol, and it's finally time to bring
it to the world! There are myriad bugfixes, including some important
ones so you should be sure to update.
Hylke: Finally MSNP15 support. To celebrate this I refreshed a lot of
the smilies used in the protocol and added the long awaited indispensable
bunny icon. I think this is one of those releases that will make a lot
of users happy, especially MSN users.
Elliott: Oh look, my first NEWS! Well anyway, with that new MSNP15
support, this release is set up to be a huge success and a total flop
all at the same time. Here's hoping it's the "huge success" one for you.
Those icon changes that Hylke made, while minor, really make things look
a little cleaner, I think. Oh yea, did I mention that MSNP15 stuff?
Mark: Speaking of MSNP15, we'd like to welcome Elliott Sales de Andrade
as a full fledged developer! He took the last few strides mushing the
new MSN code into shape. Then he decided that wasn't enough and started
doing other great stuff.
Ka-Hing: "Reject"ing a certificate after your account is signed off is
not recommended. Deleting the file after you start sending it is also
discouraged.
2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
Richard: This release includes important bug fixes. I'm just cutting
the release. Thank you to the real heroes who did the fixing!
2.4.2 (5/17/2008):
Sadrul: We added some usability changes in this release, including the
typing notification, buddyicon and input area size in the conversation
windows, escape to close conversation windows etc. These changes should
make pidgin more usable and more fun for Everyone! *wink*
Stu: I fixed some memory leaks, but nothing like as many as Daniel did.
MSN buddy list synchronization should be significantly less painful now,
and opening MSN inboxes might work better too. SILC passphrase changes
and support for passphrase-less keys has been improved also.
2.4.1 (3/31/2008):
Stu: We fixed some bugs, this release should be 110% better than 2.4.0
John: Well, I didn't really do much this release except muck about with
the configure script. Blame me if it worked in 2.4.0 but doesn't now.
Will: We seem to be falling into a nice pattern of releasing on the last
day of a month. Hypothetical AIX users might be pleased to learn that
Pidgin might actually run for them now!
2.4.0 (2/29/2008):
John: While this release took what seems like forever to get out the
door, I think it's well worth the wait, especially for Yahoo! users.
This release serves up some fixes for long standing bugs and adds
file transfer for transfers with newer Yahoo! clients (finally!). As
is standard with code I committed, where it works great thank the
patch writer, and where it's broken, feel free to yell at me. Enjoy!
Sadrul: Finch is more colourful and blinky in this release! There's
now a log viewer, which is very useful, and also the ability to
block/unblock buddies. It's now also possible to find chat rooms on
many services, e.g. XMPP, IRC, Yahoo! etc. Happy Leap Day!
Ka-Hing: I think all I've done for this release is committing some
patches written by other people.
Stu: Finally, 2.4.0 lands. I didn't do all that much except complain
about things I didn't like or just revert Sean's changes. I'm quite
pleased with how well it's turned out in the end.
Happy Birthday Fred, you must be nearly 10 now ;-)
2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
Stu: I'm sorry for the MSN problems and the plugin crashes in 2.3.0.
Hopefully this will redeem us. This fixes a number of bugs. I'm a
bit late but I'd like to welcome John to the team. Enjoy!
Luke: I've done absolutely nothing in the last 2 weeks, except watch
others commit bug and, more, leak fixes. People should be noticing
remarkably fewer memory leaks now than 2 or more releases ago.
Kevin: I'm not quite sure what happened to our MySpaceIM Summer of
Code student, but I fixed a few MySpace bugs with idle and status.
I will try to fix some of the other more significant bugs, after I
figure out the protocol, especially including grouping issues.
2.3.0 (11/20/2007):
Luke: While this does not have the new MSN code, rest assured that
we are working on it and that it is nearing release. This contains
a significant number of fixes, including some that were marked as
fixed for earlier releases. Happy Thanksgiving!
John: This is my first NEWS entry! So, this time around we have an
updated man page (the old one hadn't been really updated since
before the GTK+ 2.0 migration!), lots of bug fixes, and some new
features for you all. Enjoy!
2.2.2 (10/23/2007):
Luke: Because the main branch of pidgin development is still not
ready for public consumption, I have taken some time to try to
pull the many bug fixes that have happened since then into a
separate branch. This release is the result of that effort.
2.2.1 (9/28/2007):
Richard: We have some new code in the pipeline, but it's not quite
ready for a general release. Instead, this is basically a bug fix
release.
Luke: Unfortunately the necessity of this bug fix release means
some of the tickets that have been closed as part of the 2.2.1
milestone are not actually fixed yet. We have grabbed as many
of the changes as we could while avoiding those that are as
yet unstable though, and this should still be a marked
improvement over 2.2.0. We have spent a lot of time since the
last release looking at the tickets that have been submitted
and many of them have been closed.
Stu: I haven't NEWS'd in a while. I haven't actually done much for
too long also, maybe I'll find some time soon. This release is
basically what 2.2.0 should have been - it actually compiles this
time.
2.2.0 (9/13/2007):
Sean: 2.2.0 contains the results of several major Google Summer
of Code branches bringing some new, extraordinary features. We
have a new protocol, MySpaceIM, a bunch of new features for an
existing protocol, XMPP, and nifty new certificate management
to make sure your IM server is who it says it is.
Ka-Hing: A number of you noticed crashes when dragging windows
around when certain options are enabled. Well, that was my fault,
and Sadrul fixed it. So Props to him and poos to me. I haven't
done much for this release, but the next one should contain
something that I helped work on. Hint: students are cheap slave
coders!
Kevin: I haven't really been coding much in Pidgin, and this
release is no exception, but I will be working on getting our
wonderful web site to be a little more functional by next
release. I promise!
2.1.1 (8/20/2007):
Sean: Continuing our schedule of frequent releases, Pidgin 2.1.1
is out. In it, we've addressed a lot of UI issues from our
experimental new changes introduced in 2.1.0, and gave a lot of
attention to Yahoo! and Bonjour. Thanks to everyone who
contributed.
Luke: We have reworked some parts of the conversation windows in
response to user comments. We did not quite reach 100 tickets
closed this release, so a fair few will role over again. Still,
we are slowly but surely working our way through the reported bugs.
Many thanks to everyone who has helped with tracking down the
various issues, testing fixes, and getting patches in.
Tim: Sean finally got me to fix some of the buddy list bugs with
Yahoo! when in version 15 mode. So now we have some Yahoo! to
MSN support, which is kind of nice. Looks like some others have
been contributing to Yahoo! while I've been AWOL, so many thanks
to them.
2.1.0 (7/28/2007):
Sean: This release took a bit longer than 3 weeks, but boy is it
worth it! We're beginning to experiment with new UI concepts and
this release features a largely re-designed conversation window.
We've closed 150 tickets for this release; much thanks go to all
the developers, translators, and testers who made this possible.
Ka-Hing: Sean said no one else NEWS'ed, so I figure I should.
2.0.2 (6/14/2007):
Sean: Another big maintenance release. Again, about 100 tickets were
resolved in this release, and they keep coming in. Lots of bug fixes,
some minor icon adjustements, hopefully we addressed some ICQ
internationalization issues, and support for Bonjour on Windows!
Our next release will be 2.1.0, and will come with some great new
features.
Stu: I think we're gradually getting the hang of this 3 week thing
again. This release includes yet more bug fixes. I'd also like to
specifically thank Pekka Riikonen for the patch to enable using SILC
Toolkit 1.1 with Pidgin/libpurple that is included in this release.
2.0.1 (5/24/2007):
Sean: 2.0.1! Three weeks later, as scheduled! It is so nice to have
regular, frequent, releases again! This is a bugfix release; We have
fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im.
Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release
in another three weeks!
Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this. I don't know how you users find so many
things for us to fix. 24 hours in a day (sadly). 24 is divisible by the
sum of its digits and by their product. It is the smallest composite
number, the product of whose divisors is a cube.
Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have!
Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been
submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should
all have a much more stable experience with this release. I also
want to thank the many users who have resubmitted their reports
as we close out the old Source Forge bug tracker. If all goes well,
your report will get the attention it deserves as we continue to
work on Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple.
Nathan: A ton of fixes have gone into this release. The feedback
we've gotten on 2.0.0 has been incredible. Hopefully we've resolved
most of the critical issues with 2.0.1. If we haven't, I'm sure
our wonderful users will let us hear about it. I seem to be
forgetting something...oh, right, I haven't promised any cool new
features in the next release! So, I promise at least one cool new
feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your
definition of 'cool' to get it.
Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus
API functions. I also removed a couple of the preferences from the
Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people
for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem. The removed
preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway.
2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm
really proud of all the work we've all done. I'm pumped. And, while
I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since
1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular,
rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal
quandries. Huge thanks to everyone involved.
Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly
but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration. No one regrets more
than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release.
But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal
state. There were many tough calls to be made in the last 2 years.
Not everyone has agreed with the resulting decisions, that is un-
fortunate, but unavoidable. Suffice it to say that despite what
some users appear to think, a ton of thought, argument, discussion,
and experimentation has gone into this release. This release
builds on many years of experience, both as developers writing the
code, users using it, and in supporting other users. I hope that
those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and
attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions.
Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except
this is hardly one small step. A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0
than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole
new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born,
and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library
powering the greatest IM clients around. Bugs were fixed and
features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last
major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature
creep. As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into
Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part.
Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0. It's been a long time coming,
but there's a great deal of goodness here. When I say a long time, I'm
not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus"
(aka 1.x). The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a
number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning
and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development
period). 2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also
the first deficient number (oh well). There are only 10 types of people
in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not.
Enjoy!
Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and
I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule.
Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things
where they are today. Congratulations everyone!
Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally
released!! And it's *really* very good!!! Give your soul a break ...
Use Pidgin!
Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth
due to the delays in getting this beast out. I'm really happy that it
is done. I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is
far more stable, packed with useful features and, dare I say, prettier
than any previous release.
2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007):
Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For
starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new
logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions
below, we're totally back in the open now, having a signed agreement
from AOL that puts us in the clear. We all really regret having to go
completely dark for so long. Anyway, unlike betas1-6, which were of
normal release quality, this one is actually beta quality. There are
a few significant known issues, and a lot of changes that need a lot
of real-world testing. So, if you'd like to help us out, give it a
whirl, and let us know if you run into any major issues.
Nathan: So, the secret is out now. We renamed to Pidgin. I'd just
like to apologize to everyone we've had to keep in the dark for the
last however-many months. I know it looked like development slowed
to a crawl, but in reality we've been working pretty hard to get
2.0.0 out the door, without getting into any legal trouble. I
realize that if we were some big corporation, we'd be getting flamed
about this secrecy for months. Please try to remember that we're
just a bunch of geeks who were scared of legal stuff (well, at least
I was. Scared, that is). The bottom line is that we're out in the
open again, and fully plan to stay that way. We're also opening up
the mail archives from the secretive past few months. You can scan
through them if you want, or I can summarize. "Are the lawyers done
yet? No. Now? No. How about now? No." All lawyer jokes aside,
I'm grateful to our legal team for crossing all the 't's and dotting
all the lowercase 'j's to get us the deal we got. Anyways, thanks
for your patience, and on to 2.0.1!
Gary: Well my silence, and our silence has ended. Finally the name
change is over and done with and we can go back to a normal dev
cycle. Now if I can just get myself back onto a normal dev cycle,
but that's another story all together.
Ethan: Not to be too "me-too", but I have to say that I'm really
excited about the project's new name and identity, and glad to be
out of the legal mess. We're pushing beta 7 with all of the
branding and organizational changes that have been going on for
the last few months, so there are likely to be some snags --
please help us out by trying beta 7, searching for any bugs you
find in the bug tracker at http://developer.pidgin.im/, and
documenting them if they are unknown or you can provide new
information. Help us make 2.0.0 final a release to be remembered
(in a good way)! I'd like to give huge thanks to all of the
developers, our steadfast supporters, the crazy patch writers, and
everyone else who has made this transition to Pidgin possible, and
the improvements that go along with it. I'd like to extend a
special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues
and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one
wants to deal with.
2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2007):
Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be
the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI
changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other
goodness.
Nathan: Beta6 rocks. That is all.
Gary: Long time no news. My silence will end soon ;)
Evan: My first news! I knocked out a nice collection of crashes,
thanks in part to my ever-patient Adium beta testers. Gaim 2.0.0
is going to be delicious. :)
2.0.0beta5 (11/9/2006):
Sean: Another release in our endless stream in betas. This one's
pretty awesome; and it fixes major bugs introduced in previous
ones.
2.0.0beta4 (10/17/2006)
Sean: Still beta. Maybe the next one should be a gamma.. :)
Daniel: I'm super chuffed to announce that this will work with newer
(i.e. >= 2.8.0) versions of GTK+ on Windows.
Luke: Several significant changes in this one, including no longer
using libao for sound! There are no doubt bugs here, but hopefully
nothing major.
Nathan: I don't have much to say, but yay for another beta!
Etan: I did a bunch of perl work for this beta again, there is now
some support for perl scripts to call functions in the gtk ui, it
still needs work.
2.0.0beta3 (03/25/2006):
Mark: Yeah, I know, another beta. Don't worry, we'll get this
puppy out the door eventually.
2.0.0beta2 (01/24/2006):
Mark: So this is the new year, and I don't feel any different, but
Gaim is getting better. We hope this will be our last beta before
we release the final version of 2.0.0. As before, please shower us
in feedback!
Richard: I'm proud to say a lot of bugs have been squashed in this
version. If you filed a bug against beta1, please test to see if
it's fixed now and update your bug report accordingly (by either
closing it or setting the version to 2.0.0beta2). I'm also looking
for someone who uses Gaim on MacOS X to test a patch for me before
I can commit it. See http://gaim.sf.net/contactinfo.php for my
contact information.
Etan: So I did a bunch of work on the perl plugin since beta1, so
anyone who uses perl plugins would do well to expect some things to
need updating (I'm not certain everything works yet, so please send me
any reports of things that don't). Most of the work was correcting
some namespace issues, but I also improved the support for perl
plugins having plugin_pref frames, and plugin actions. Multiple perl
plugins can now have plugin_pref frames at the same time, and every
perl plugin can have multiple plugin actions now. Like Mark said
above, let us know how this beta works out.
2.0.0beta1 (12/17/2005):
Sean: I think Nathan sums everything up really well below. There's still
a bunch we want to add (and remove) before the official release, but we
really want to start getting feedback about what's good and what's not.
So, please, be vocal about this beta!
Nathan: 15 months since we branched oldstatus, and started working on
the behemoth that is 2.0.0. In that time, we've added a couple new
protocols, we had a few crazy patch writers become developers, and
had a few more people step up to be crazy patch writers. Sean wrote
a book, and we arbitrarily decided to make a version 1.0.0, and a
new versioning scheme. We got new artwork, and added almost 200 lines
to the ChangeLog. We've watched 2 major GTK+ releases, and added all
kinds of features using them. OK, I've wasted enough bits here. This
beta rocks, but it is a beta. Treat it as such, and enjoy!
Gary: Finally we have a beta. There are a lot of new goodies, including
quite a few summer of code projects that couldn't get added into the
oldstatus branch because API changes. We also have a new mono plugin
loader for even more plugin fun.
Richard: Thanks to all who wrote patches (big or small) for this beta.
Tim: Well here it is, the first beta. There's a lot of cool things in
here, but not all of them are finished or debugged. But then that's
why it's called a beta. Conversations are now contact-aware, and
there's a new status selector. There's smooth scrolling on incoming
messages as well. Our Crazy Patch Writers have been doing a good
job too, it seems like we're never lacking some patches in the
tracker to review.
Etan: I know I'm not going to be able to think of all the things I should
talk about here so I'll just go with the stuff I remember. Adding buddies
on ejabberd jabber servers should work more correctly now (it's possible
adding buddies on other servers is a bit broken currently I'm still
looking into it). There are still other jabber issues I'm looking into
with handling of buddies.
In other topics, I finally brought my Accounts menu into gaim, though the
current example of it isn't exactly what I had in mind, anyone with any
suggestions/comments/etc about it please speak up.
Other than the stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention this beta should
be awesome as gaim 2.0.0 is going to be awesome. Have fun with it.
Luke: pretty much everything important has been said, so this is going to
be rather repetative. This is a beta folks, so it will have bugs. It
will crash unexpectedly. Perhaps even frequently. Use it at your peril.
But do use it (though you might want to back up ~/.gaim first), and let us
know what needs to be fixed.
Mark: Yay.
Stu: Wow!
Siege: Sametime accounts created with gaim-meanwhile should merge over
for use in the beta just fine. Some of the familiar settings regarding
the buddy list are gone, so I recommend backing up your Sametime blist
before getting down and crazy. Have fun, and happy early Decemberween!
Daniel: Enjoy! In the hopes that this prevents someone pain... do not use
Glib/GTK+ 2.8.x with Wingaim - it will not work. We're looking into the
problem and hope to have it resolved before the final release.
"Happy Holidays!"
1.5.0 (8/11/2005):
Mark: No super crazy major changes here. Just the usual bug
fixes and some pretty important security updates.
Stu: Buy Sean's book. He obviously needs the money. Other than that
we fixed some bugs with this release (I don't think we did much else).
SoC students are doing lots of cool stuff which we'll hopefully be
able to bring you in a future release.
Nathan: I've continued my streak of doing nothing useful lately.
However, I've now got a brand-spanking-new DSL line, so I might
actually get to contribute soon. One way or another I'd like
to get HEAD into a more useable state in the next month or two.
Also, like Stu said, buy Sean's book. I've been reading and
fixing it for the last umpteen months, so you had better enjoy
it.
1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
Mark: The last month or four we've promoted a bunch of the Gaim
Crazy Patch Writers to developers, so there is now an even larger
team of brilliant and amazingly sexy committers working around
the globe for your instant messaging pleasure. Also, we have
what I believe to be our first contribution from a Summer of Code
student in this release: Jonathan Clark enabled the sending of
files to certain ICQ users. Support is still a bit rough, but
he'll be working on it throughout the summer.
Luke: Exciting times this summer as our Summer of Code interns
start their projects. This is mostly a bug fix release, with the
ICQ file transfer that Mark mentioned and some buddy icon work
being the only real new code. Hence the extra week delay. A
big thanks to our translators who keep churning out updates even
when we give them short notice as well. Enjoy!
1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
Sean: It's been a while since I've done one of these. Welcome to
Gaim 1.3.1, "New Hyde Park." This is, again, another bugfix release
but it comes with two keen announcements. First, I'd like to welcome
Christopher O'Brien to the Gaim team. He has integrated his work on
the Meanwhile project into Gaim, ensuring that Gaim 2.0.0 will include
Sametime support. Also, we're participating in Google's Summer of
Code, which you all should check out at
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
Luke: This release fixes SILC for multiple accounts. HOWEVER, you
may lose your buddy list (for SILC only) upgrading. This is
rather unavoidable as the previous code did not keep track of
which account each buddy belonged to.
Stu: I'm glad we're finally getting this out, if fixes a number of bugs
ranging from minor to not so minor. I'd also like to welcome Gary to
the team - he's done a great job with Guifications, I'm sure he'll do
good stuff here too.
Gary: Well I got pretty much nothing done for this release. Although I
do have quite a few things in the works that will come to fruition when
I find some more free time.
1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
Luke: Several important fixes this time around. Big thanks to
Robert McQueen, Stu, Nathan, Ethan, and everyone else who has helped
with this effort. Maybe next time we can get a decent chance to fix the
problems *before* they go public to have a normal release process.
Nathan: Jabber got some updates this release (finally). I've got
more planned, but simply haven't had the time to anything about it.
1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
Luke: Happy St. Patrick's Day all. Sean scheduled a release for
today, we'll see if we can pull it off. :-) This release
features somewhat more than just bug fixes, some improvements
have been made to the conversation API which may affect plugin
developers. Yahoo users should also thank Tim and Bleeter for
their efforts.
Etan: I'm going to NEWS since I actually did something this time.
Jabber will allow you to unsubscribe to someone's presence
without logging out and in again, this does break seeing yourself
on your buddy list, but hopefully we'll fix that again for the
next release.
Stu: Happy St. Guinness^wPatrick's day.
1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
Sean: Another bug fix release. A big thanks to Rob McQueen, Ari
Pollak, Don Seiler, and Warren Togami: some packagers who helped
debug a nasty glib 2.6 problem. Also thanks to our own Stu who
found and destroyed an MSN crash and an HTML parsing error
Luke: Early release to handle the MSN and HTML crashes, as well
as the glib crash. Maybe that makes up for having had a 4 week
period before the last release. This one should be the nice
stable release we meant 1.1.3 to be. Enjoy!
Stu: I cleaned up the whitespace in this NEWS, it was bugging me.
1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
Luke: Yet another bug fix release, many thanks to everyone who has
helped to make gaim more stable!
Stu: I fixed too many Yahoo HTTP proxy bugs, I should just go and
write some core HTTP support that works better. A good all round
bug fix release otherwise.
1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
Luke: Another Bug fix release. This one featuring a fix to the HTTP
Method for MSN users and other MSN fixes. A big thanks to Stu and
Felipe Contreras for those. Stu also spent a long time in valgrind
and so this brings you a Gaim release with fewer memory leaks. This
release is on time primarily because I want to see the MSN fixes
make it into Debian and Fedora before freezes. Expect further bug
fix only releases to come at longer intervals, at Mark's request.
Daniel: This is my first NEWS! (YaY) I didn't really do too much for
this release. There are a few bugfixes, mostly wingaim stuff. Oh, and
I like the new XP System Tray icons.
Sean: I'm down here today. I haven't really been paying too much
attention to these boring bugfix releases, but I'd like to thank
David and welcome him to the team. I'd also like to thank Steven
and Nathan from Silverorange who redid the webpage.
Tim: Another bug fix release. I didn't really fix any bugs, so
I didn't exactly do much for this one. The autopackage will now
work with mozilla-nss, if anyone has that, and not gnutls11. (It
works with either gnutls11 or mozilla-nss, but not gnutls10)
I started working on Gaim-vv again though, and I merged someone's
custom msn smiley patch into the 2.0.0 tree, so expect good things
whenever that's released (no, don't try it now, you won't like it).
Oh and welcome to the team Daniel. Of course, he was already on my
Gaim-vv team.
Stu: Welcome Daniel! you've done some good stuff already. Felipe did some
good work on MSN yet again, so you can all use the HTTP method now. I
didn't do all that much, other than let valgrind tell me what to fix, and
a couple of easy bug fixes from the bug tracker. Hopefully Ethan will get
well soon, so he can get back to merging patches and fixing things.
Nathan: I think I made some Jabber fixes, at least one of which is
ChangeLog'd. I will continue to make empty promises about new features,
especially for 2.0.0. Until then, welcome Daniel!
1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
Luke: This bug fix release features msn improvements, drag and drop
improvements, and some translation stuff. Thanks for everone who has
helped with it, and hopefully we can get 2.0.0 out soon. On a side
note, i'm still looking for someone to look at the perl plugin loader.
1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
Luke: Another in our series of bug fix releases, with a slight twist.
Everyone thank Ethan for implementing a fall back encoding for IRC,
it has been much requested and should make a number of users very
happy. See the ChangeLog for details on other fixes.
Stu: Much thanks to Miah Gregory and Felipe Contreras, a bunch of
memory leaks have been fixed. Felipe also fixed a good number of
other MSN bugs. I didn't do much except apply these guys fixes. It's
good to see fixes from Gary coming in again too ;-). I like the
docklet adjustments Christian made. Btw, we have a new MSN protocol
icon, and I think you'll love it.
Tim: I made Gaim binary relocatable this release, so Gaim can find
itself if it gets lost, and I'm going to try to make autopackages
for this release, if the autopackage guys release their new version
soon like they're talking. I also "fixed" a scrolling bug, by
realizing it was all Gentoo's fault. The IRC encoding thing Ethan
did is pretty nice, no more encoding error messages!
Ethan: Rumor has it that I did some work this release, but it's just
that, a rumor. I think Luke started it. I did lay the hammer down
on bogus word wrapping in the NEWS, so you can thank me for that.
Keep your powder dry.
1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
Luke: Not much to see here, some bug fixes that you all will enjoy as
the semester draws to a close and everyone still in school gets bogged
down with projects, papers, and exams. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are interested
in the perl or gadu-gadu functionality, please step up to help write
patches, as both of these code blocks are currently unmaintained.
Tim: I fixed a couple bugs this time. In other news, Kim wants to get
a pet cockatiel or two.
Nathan: I was gonna put a new feature in this release, but decided
not to because I found a bug in it today, and I'm tired. Also, I haven't
consulted the powers-that-be about putting new features into oldstatus.
Stu: I'm writing this at 11:11:11pm on 11/11. Eleven. It's 3 really. Or B.
It's the 5th smallest prime number. Himalia is the 11th moon of Jupiter.
Hendecagon. There are 1011 players on a football team. XI. 16 hours. Eleven
is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English. This