- Squashed a bug in buddy right-click menu handling that crashed Gaim. In the process: found and eliminated some memory leaks.
- Fixed a significant applet leak
- Can now change Jabber password on server (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
- Certain types of Jabber presence errors no longer falsely show a buddy on-line. Instead now a "broken light-bulb" icon is shown and the error status is available via "Get Away Msg" (Thanks and a tip o' the hat to Christian Hammond for the graphic)
- Conversation struct has pointer to toolbar (thanks Brent Priddy and Paul Miller)
- Zephyr fixes (thanks, Arun A. Tharuvai)
- Aliases in buddy ticker
- Perl scripts can play Gaim sounds (thanks Andrew Rodland)
- Internal sounds can be played by commands (thanks Lex Spoon)
- Auto-login item in applet menu (thanks Chris Boyle)
- Fixed MSN "Unkown Error Code", "Already there", and Already in opposite list" errors
- Changed "Play sound" button to "Mute" button
- You can now have "reserved" chars in IM and proxy passwords
- Jabber now has typing notification (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
- Improved support for Jabber resources (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
- Fixed problem with Gaim crashing on non-ASCII Jabber buddy aliases (Jabber "name" attribute) chars (Thanks, Ho-seok Lee)
- Plugged memory leaks in Jabber plug-in
- Fixed problem with Jabber away status not being propagated to conference rooms for jabberd (server) v1.4.2 and above
- Chat room buddy lists are now sorted independent of case
- Added capability for protocol-specific edit buddy menu entries
- Can now remove a Jabber buddy roster item from the server entirely
- Gaim can now handle messages from Mac ICQ and Miranda ICQ (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
- Added Mozilla to browser options and changed KFM to Konqueror.
- Can now set the server and port for MSN and Napster
- MSN Internationalization (Thanks Felipe Contreras and countless, countless others)
- E-mail addresses are no longer truncated when there is a '.' at the end.
* Mon May 13 2002 Rob Flynn <rob@marko.net> (0.58 release)
- Get Info from menu multiple-account-aware (thanks Brian Bernas)
- Hide and unhide functions for the filectl plugin. (Thanks, Ari Pollak)
- Added helpful stuff to the Help menu.
- Self-aliasing from the account editor.
- Better selection in GtkIMHtml (Thanks Ben Miller)
- A warning when your OSCAR buddy list is too long (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
- ICQ status messages in OSCAR (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
- Play sound when your name is said in a chat
- Approval dialog for Jabber when somebody wants to subscribe to user's presence. Also gives user the opportunity to add that buddy if not already on the user's buddy list.
- Jabber "Change buddy group" roster synchronization now works again. (This was unknowningly broken when the "out-sourced" Jabber libs were upgraded in 0.56)
- Invalid Jabber I.D.'s no longer crash Gaim. User now notified with pop-up's.
- Jabber Buddy sign-on time support, added in 0.57, removed until and unless an inconsistancy can be resolved. (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
- Bug-fix for potential buffer overflow in Jabber plugin. (Thanks, rwscott)
- Tempfiles used for secure MSN/HotMail login (added in 0.57) are now themselves created securely.
- Secure MSN logins (added in 0.57) no longer blow up on Solaris.
- Timezone support improved.
* Thu Apr 25 2002 Rob Flynn <rob@marko.net (0.57 release)
* Thu Nov 18 2001 Rob Flynn <rob@marko.net> (0.48 release)
- Right-click on links to open/copy URL
- Yahoo changes
- Oscar can send/receive offline messages in ICQ. Since the "real" ICQ protocol isn't working too well it's recommended that you use Oscar for ICQ.
* Thu Nov 01 2001 Rob Flynn <rob@marko.net> (0.47 release)
- Better font loading (pays attention to charset now) (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
- Better recoding in Gadu-Gadu (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
- Open Mail button for when you get new mail (Yahoo and MSN)
- New buddy pounce option: Popup Notification
- When adding a buddy, the groups list now updates when you switch accounts.
- When creating a new buddy pounce, gaim now automagically selects "on away" or "on idle", if the user is away or idle.
- Add Opera to the available browsers (thanks Brian Enigma)
- Improved log viewer (thanks to Ben Miller)
- When you are queueing away messages, double clicking on a buddy's name will cause the messages for that name to be dequeued.
- You can choose which sound player you use at run-time (thanks Ben Miller)
- When someone adds you to their buddy list, it asks if you want to add them as well (Yahoo, ICQ, and MSN) (thanks Nathan Walp)
- Option to grey idle buddies (thanks Nathan Walp)
- MSN Privacy Options
- In MSN you can set a person's alias to their "friendly name" by right-click on their name while they're online.
- IRC can do /WHOIS
- The usual bug fixes and memory leak plugs
- Added Dutch translation
- Updated Korean translation
* Thu Oct 18 2001 Rob Flynn <rob@marko.net> (0.46 release)
- New applet icons (courtesy David Raeman)
- ICQ works on big-endian platforms, e.g. sparc and ppc (thanks to Nathan Walp and Ben Miller)
- Better applet icon drawing (thanks to Ari Pollak)
- An extraordinary number of bug fixes
- Updated Korean translation
- Ability to stop animation on buddy icons, restart animation, hide certain buddy icons, and save people's buddy icons, all through a right-click menu
- Event handlers in perl passed arguments as elements of an array rather than all concatenated as a string, making perl much easier to use (thanks Dennis Lambe Jr.)
- Can pass an argument to timeout_handlers in perl (thanks Artem Litvinovich)
- Redesigned Modify Account window (thanks Sean Egan)
- Add buddy dialog now lets you select which protocol to add the buddy to
- Pressing 'signon' on the first screen for accounts that do not require passwords no longer incorrectly displays an error message.
* Thu Oct 04 2001 Rob Flynn <rob@marko.net> (0.45 release)
- New plugin event: event_chat_send_invite
- Major updates to the perl system (reread PERL-HOWTO and SIGNALS)
- Major updates to event_chat_* events for plugins (reread SIGNALS)
- Some GtkIMHtml improvements
- Various bugfixes
- Nick Highlighting in chat
- Tab-completion for nicks in chat (thanks to Sean Egan)
- Large internal reworkings
- New Protocol: Gadu-Gadu, written by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
- Can choose buddy icon to send (for Oscar)
- New Translation: Polish translation by Przemysaw Suek
* Thu Sep 20 2001 Rob Flynn <rob@marko.net> (0.44 release)
- More sane scaling of buddy icons (intelligently scale to either 48x48 or 50x50 depending on icon)
- Have you ever had it happen where you cancel a login and Gaim starts using all the available processing power? I think I fixed that.
- Temporarily removed Jabber user registration, which wasn't working anyway.
- Added a spiffy Help button
- Wrote a plugin for all those people who miss having the chat rooms in their buddy lists (chatlist.so)
- Updated libfaim
- Added drop down selection to chat invitation
- Improved the look of the chat invitation dialog
- Improved the look of the proxy preferences
- event_im_recv and event_im_display_rcvd passed whether the message received was auto-response (see SIGNALS)
- IRC fixes (largly copied from X-Chat)
- Internal change to how preferences are stored
- Other bug fixes
- Option to hide buddy icons
* Thu Sep 06 2001 Rob Flynn <rob@marko.net> (0.43 release)
- Updated German Translation (thanks Daniel Seifert)
- Can change friendly name in MSN again
- Bug fixes
- Auto-reconnect plugin has exponential timeout (i.e. it tries after 8 seconds, then 16, then 32, etc. up to 17 minutes)
- Removed file transfer things from Napster. It didn't work well anyway. It'll be back eventually. (Does anyone even use napster anymore?)
