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</h1> <p>Adium 1.4 was over 2 years in development (after the release of Adium 1.3 on 8/25/2008) and sports many new features. Just a few of the major improvements are listed below. We hope Adium makes instant messaging wonderful for you.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtable"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="One column table with heading"> <td width="150" rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="../gfx/IRC from account selection.png" alt="Image of Adium account types with IRC selected" height="auto" width="150" border="0" /> </td> <li>Timeline messages appear in a group chat.
</li> <li>Direct messages as a one-on-one chat with a contact
</li> <li>Adding and removing contact list buddies follows and unfollows them, respectively.
</li> <li>Also includes support for StatusNet servers, such as Identi.ca
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtable"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="One column table with heading"> <td width="150" rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="../gfx/Twitter from account selection.png" alt="Image of Adium account types with Twitter selected" height="auto" width="150" border="0" /> </td> <li>Execute commands on connect.
</li> <li>Display of operator status in chats, as well as user's /away status
</li> <li>Mass-modify attributes of user list members from the group chat's action widget below the user list.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Greatly improved group chats and group chat bookmarks
</h3> <div class="taskboxtable"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="One column table with heading"> <td width="150" rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="../gfx/Group Chat.png" alt="Image of a group chat" height="auto" width="150" border="0" /> </td> <li>Joining large group chats now works a lot faster.
</li> <li>Many improvements to the user list.
</li> <li>Support for topics. (Note that message styles must support the feature for them to show up.)
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>New Authorization Requests window
</h3> <div class="taskboxtable"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="One column table with heading"> <td width="150" rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="../gfx/Authorization Requests window.png" alt="Image of the Authorization Requests window" height="auto" width="150" border="0" /> </td> <li>Authorization requests no longer create one alert panel per request
</li> <li>The authorization requests window has add, ignore, and deny toolbar and context menu items.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>New and updated default message styles
</h3> <div class="taskboxtable"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="One column table with heading"> <td width="150" rowspan="2" valign="top"><img src="../gfx/New Smooth Operator.png" alt="Image of new Smooth Operator" height="auto" width="150" border="0" /> </td> <li>Updated to take advantage of new features such as topics and mentions.
</li> <li>Adium 1.4 also adds yMous as an entirely new style.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>For the full list of changes, fixes, and improvements check out
<a class="ext_link" href="http://trac.adium.im/wiki/AdiumVersionHistory">Adium Version History
</a>.
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