-=[ Gaim ]=- The Pimpin' Penguin IM Client That's Good For The Soul!

0.59.9 (03/01/2003):

Rob: I hope this is the last 0.59.x release, which means we should

probably try to get 0.60 finished _soon_.

Sean: With emphasis on the _soon_.

0.59.8 (01/06/2003):

Rob: Yahoo needs to stop changing stuff

George: Yeah

Sean: Yeah

0.59.7 (12/21/2002):

Rob: Oops. IT's been a little while since a release of the stable

branch. Here's a release of the stable branch.

George: I hog-tied rob and kept him in the closet. That's why we haven't

had a release yet.

Sean: Hopefully this will be one of the last stable releases. I, for one

would really like to start thinking about getting 0.60 out. Remember, kids,

you can always use CVS for cool new stuff.

0.59.6 (11/07/2002):

Rob: Hmm. The last version had a bug. That sucks.

George: It was my fault.

Sean: Yeah--that was a bad bug. Good thing George fixed it.

Thanks, George. These 0.59.x bugfix releases just keep getting

more and more boring. I prefer spontaneous trips to Providence and

our GTK2 CVS branch.

0.59.5 (10/14/2002):

Rob: There's not much to this release. It fixes the segfault that

happened due to a protocol change by Yahoo!. Enjoy.

George: Ok.

Sean: ...

0.59.4 (10/06/2002):

Rob: Well, it has been some time since we made our last release. This

version has a few minor bug fixes. We hope that this will keep everyone

satisfied while we work on the major list of enhancements and changes

to the GTK2 port of Gaim. I think everyone will really like it.

George: I like it! Too bad nobody likes me!

Sean: Did you mean: gimp

0.59.3 (09/14/2002):

Rob: This really has been made a little early. Of course, we figured

that some of you may like to connect to Yahoo. Sorry about that

little blunder. I blame it on George.

Sean: That was just a silly mistake--there's no need to make George

feel bad! There's also some nice i18n fixes in there by Matt Wilson

from RedHat.

George: Why doesn't anybody love me?

0.59.2 (09/09/2002):

Rob: This time Sean couldn't be with us. I finally got my linux box

some what back in order. Life has been extremely hectic for both Sean

and myself lately, I think. Sean will have his cable connection soon

and my linux box should be completely happy again soon. Thanks to

everyone that kept the patches coming in and organized while we

were busy (chip, luke, robot, etc.)

0.59.1 (08/25/2002):

Sean: We've decided to create a stable branch for GTK+ 1.2 bugfixes

and start developing CVS HEAD in GTK+ 2 only. GTK+ 1.2 releases

will be in the 0.59.x branch and GTK+ 2 releases will follow our

normal versioning scheme.

Things slow down a lot during the summer--but the summer is ending

soon so expect development to really pick up soon. It will take a

little while to get 0.60 working well with GTK 2, but hopefully

we'll go back to biweekly releases after that.

0.59 (06/24/2002):

Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.

I'm very tired but it's time for a release. Enjoy. :)

SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(

0.58 (05/13/2002):

Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release

didn't go out on time. Oh well. I would like to welcome

Jim Seymour aboard the development team. He's going to be taking

over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other

nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.

Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog. Higlights include an

important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.

Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)

Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:

Rob's a mango.

0.57 (04/25/2002):

Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is

what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,

a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean

said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read

our minds ;-).

Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that

ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol

all the other 3rd party clients are using. Next release will be

cooler, I promise.

0.56 (04/11/2002):

Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have

these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.

I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.

Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through

the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like

GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one

annoying style problem.

Sean: Hello. This is another minor release while Rob and I finish

up on some bigger projects. We're reworking a lot of the UI to make

it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.

I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it

will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near

future.

0.55 (03/29/2002):

Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean

has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch

release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,

so it's better in that aspect, I suppose. Enjoy.

Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release. I'm on Spring Break, not

doing any coding at all. But lots of people sent in great patches

anyway. Thanks guys!

0.54 (03/14/2002):

Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this

release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific

smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*

Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced

a bunch too. ;) We were both really busy, and did all the coding

late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,

it's probably just tired code. Enjoy the triscuits!

0.53 (02/28/2002):

Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a

nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)

Sean: Neat Goodies! Whee!! Oscar got a lot of great additions.

It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy

list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct

Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images! Sending images will

be added in the next release. MSN and Yahoo! can do typing

notification too. Hooray!

0.52 (02/17/2002):

Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.

I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going

well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect

us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule. Enjoy these fixen,

as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)

Sean: It looks like things are back on track now. Eric left which is

sad. He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.

Thanks Eric! I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can

never replace Eric. This release fixes a long-standing problem in

MSN. If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want

this release. If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to

Yahoo!, you want this release too. The "neat goodies" will be in the

next release ;)

Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)

0.51 (01/24/2002):

Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release

after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really

hectic around the gaim house hold. This release isn't as complete

as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some

neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)

0.50 (12/13/2001):

Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!

Eric: I second that.

0.49 (11/29/2001):

Rob: *still mamboing*

Whew! That was a bad little mambo. I hope everyone had a nice

little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had

a sucky weekend. :-D.

Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)

It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'

fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?

Eric: I want to be like you.

Do the cha cha cha!

0.48 (11/18/2001):

Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).

Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not

too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to

thank Eric for his hard work. :)

Eric: Everybody mambo!

0.47 (11/01/2001):

Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already

know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are

quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too

many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.

Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol

Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back

before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or

10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.

Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.

Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.

0.46 (10/18/2001):

Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting

up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was

really awesome. Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.

This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother

going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!

Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped

crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using

Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this

version. It's much better, I promise.

0.45 (10/04/2001):

Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another

release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and

quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that

Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be

joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the

campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied

with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.

0.44 (09/20/2001):

Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite

a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't

feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them

in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog. Oh, and if you're

wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or

use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)

Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the

slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC

plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using

X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you

should load the plugin and join us. :)

0.43 (09/06/2001):

Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't

expect it to be so soon. ;-). Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally

got sick of all of the pre releases. We didn't want to make this

release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot

of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases

either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there

have been 42 releases. This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version

number. We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).

Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release

often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully

we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You

should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to

report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the

last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version

change mostly :)

0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):

Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing

because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting

the month break that I took it's been a month since the last

release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.

Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And

don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.

Rob: Hey guys. I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long

story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,

myself included, due to poor management. I've taken a new

job which required moving across the country. I'm finally back

online. Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be

able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower

back and neck. So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.

Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still

in progress. Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.

We'll keep you updated with what happens.

0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):

Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of

stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,

right?

Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.

Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.

Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier

in the day. I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited

a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a

24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about

random stuff. Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.

Enjoy this release guys! :-)

0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):

Rob: \O. Howdy doodie! This release isn't coming too far behind

the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple

of good fixes in this one. Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics

of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and

passwords, and the man page got a big update.

Well, that's about all, folks. Next release, I hope to try to get

group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC

plugin.

Peace!

Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because

of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There

were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still

has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,

and Oscar is able to sign on again.

0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):

Rob: Hi! O/. My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being

unavailable online. Hooray.

There have been a lot of good changes in this release. Some improved

dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing

that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.

Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs. Ugh!

Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last

release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy

options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if

you set it to Socks5 though.

There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each

protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one

super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.

Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're

there.

So that's it. Have fun with it :)

0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):

Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today. It is now 50% empty.

A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I

have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much. I'll let

Eric talk :)

Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15

or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A

dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,

Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say

that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has

changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.

Rob: --. .- .. -- / .. ... / --. .-. . .- - --..-- / --. .- .. -- /

.. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-

I don't have a headache anymore! Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those

drinks. I bought some bananas. They're very green. Oh, and I cooked

a steak last night. It was 16 oz. It was good.

0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):

Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!! I think I fixed a few buggies

in MSN and then added some new features to IRC. I have a headache

right now, though, so I won't talk much. I think I'm going to go

to sleep. Next release, I should have a good bit more done on

IRC and will have made Napster more stable. Have fun!!

Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless

you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there

were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber

accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also

working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?

0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):

Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this

morning. Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you

all know him from libfaim) we're now back online. Thanks,

Adam. I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).

0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):

Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should

help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols

got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).

Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a

jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.

I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?

Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,

I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.

Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now. It had

a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now. Next

on my list of repairs is the napster plugin. It works -- sorta --

sometimes. Heh. As all of you probably know already, our Oscar

support was broken yesterday. There's a little battle going on

between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.

I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one

paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).

** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **

0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):

Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin. Sorry, I'm just

a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh. It pretty much has the same

functionality as before with the exception of instability. I

didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it. I hope

you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).

Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!

library and an option to have all conversations in one window,

in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't

forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want

added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.

0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):

Eric: Yay! I get to go first!

The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things

got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.

Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few

new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim

and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of

great requests so far, thanks.

I think I like releasing every week.

Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first. The biggest change

In this release is the NEWS file. It's the only thing I contributed

to! heh, just kidding. This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.

Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin. You guys

should be happy with it :).

Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :) Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.

0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):

Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D. That seems

to be a pretty common saying around here, huh? Well, I must first

appologize. The protocols that I was working on really should be

much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,

actually. Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got

a little too busy and ate up all of my free time. I promise that

things will get better now :).

Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But

hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two

months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow

couple of months.

Rob: I promise to hack gaim again. Please don't hate me.

0.11.0-pre4:

Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!

Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these

prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of

bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with

the whole release early-release often philosophy.

The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and

Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make

these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber

and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,

soon :)

Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New

Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release

out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.

0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):

Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it

looks like it was needed. That's not necessarially a bad thing,

mind you. It just means you get to see more goodies!

This release includes some other fun features. See the ChangeLog

for more information. Also found in this wonderful release is

an MSN plugin. For all of you who have been holding onto Windows

simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want

to leave, this plugin is for you! :)

Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the

SourceForge bug report forum at

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/. This will allow both

Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us

from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)

Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want

to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and

leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of

good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,

unfortunately).

If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of

a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM

and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the

HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.

This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the

protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's

mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable

condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug

reports ;)

0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):

Rob: I messed up. Oh well, it's fixed.

0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):

Rob: Hey guys! Guess what!? Yup, you're correct! It's the pre1

release of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!

Check out the ChangeLog file. As always if you find any bugs,

please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/

You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.

You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full

functionality as of yet. All of the important / commands will be

added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me

some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much

appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!

If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know

either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL

above. :)

Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the

Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to

make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It

turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,

Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new

class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new

protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that

uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still

static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)

Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of

time and effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since

the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.

0.10.3 (10/09/2000):

Rob: I am dumb.

Eric: I am not dumb.

0.10.2 (10/07/2000):

Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?

Eric: What happened since the last release?

Rob: You got DSL.

Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.

Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release

to hold everyone over. Look for some very awesome things

coming in the next version. I can't say what, just yet,

but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!

0.10.1 (09/15/2000):

Rob: Hi Hi Hi! Yet another gaim release pushed out the door

for you guys. I hope you all enjoy it. There was a few minor

issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of

OSCAR support. Hopefully we won't run into the same problem

as before. Oh well ;-). There's also a few small extra goodies

in here for you guys just check out the Change Log. I hope you all

enjoy and take care!

Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.

The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix

for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.

They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,

yeah.

0.10.0 (09/11/2000):

Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our

last release. Here we go. Some brand spankin' new interfaces

for you guys to oogle at. I hope you all enjoy it. Hopefully

our next release won't take as long to finish up. Real life

kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.

Life sucks that way sometimes. Anyways, we're back and all

is well. Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope

you enjoy it!

Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I

only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.

It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember

what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of

new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now

I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't

that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet

connection back >:-/ .

Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work. We took

a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons. If anyone could do some

custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same

idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy

to use them. Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.

0.9.20 (07/14/2000):

Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version. I've done quite a bit

of work to the user interface. It's still not in the state that I

would like it to be, though. Over the next few versions you will

notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more

professional look to Gaim. As always, we will stay true to our

pimpin' penguin atittude.

Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy

making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which

means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me

and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should

work better in general now (thanks fflew).

Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm

not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all

day and claim to do work. WOOO! Just kidding, brother :-P

0.9.19 (06/09/2000):

Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA

PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA

PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA

All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen

in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until

the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature

and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out

now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist

stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,

we promise.

Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat

had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI

didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few

bugfixes out.

Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give

as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information

you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then

we're probably not going to respond well.

Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I

agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in

a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and

happy hacking.

0.9.18 (06/02/2000):

Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going

insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI. I dont know

how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the

next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming

up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll

include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.

And -- for your random silly message of the day --

"Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!

I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"

- Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.

Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's

actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.

Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.

Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing

the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough

to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to

fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the

next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to

do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I

can feel it....)

And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if

you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi

cherries are damn good.

0.9.17 (05/31/2000):

Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!

(after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem

and responding to all of them immediately)

I am stupid.

Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these

times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in

this one.

Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it right, would we? :-)

0.9.16:

Rob: Blah Blah Blah.

Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something

instead :)

There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them

being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,

so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this

release, so check out the ChangeLog.

Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.

Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.

lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont

ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast

connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.

There's also some idle preferences and some other little random

bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)

0.9.8:

Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new

version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few

new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*

HTTP proxy support.

Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing

with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love

life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful

photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we

will take a couple of quick snapshots.

Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we

had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh

by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.

In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the

one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he

wasn't feeling very well at the time).

Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!

Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that

we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am

not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.

Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!

By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.

http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you

enjoy them! :).

0.9.7:

Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good

release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.

Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little

"bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few

other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim

and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with

gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore

in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \

have also been fixed in passwords. :o)

0.9.6:

Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob

is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features

have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.

0.9.5:

Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of

small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the

ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the

distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick

look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.

Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all

learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm

gotta love those pranks, eh?

0.8.0:

Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new

from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce

among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.

Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I

promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I

want to get it out there.