--- a/Dockerfile Mon Jan 13 10:32:35 2020 +0000
+++ b/Dockerfile Mon Jan 13 10:34:41 2020 +0000
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
-RUN hugo -s /nest/hugo -d /nest/public+RUN hugo -s /nest/hugo -d /nest/public && \ + cp /nest/public/post/index.xml /nest/public/rss.xml #####################################################################
# setup up our node environment
@@ -34,5 +35,6 @@
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+ENV GOSERVE_404_PAGE="/html/404.html" COPY --from=node-build /nest/public /html/
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/hugo/static/ChangeLog Mon Jan 13 10:34:41 2020 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,4988 @@
+Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul +version 2.13.0 (03/08/2018): + * Unified string comparison. (PR #186) (Arkadiy Illarionov) + * Properlly shell escape URI's when opening them. (PR #271 Daniel Kamil Kozar) + * Fix a one byte buffer overread in function purple_markup_linkify + * Fix an issue were utf8 was incorrectly truncated which could lead to + crashes as we were potentially feeding garbage into glib/gtk. + * Fixed build against curses 6.0 with opaque structs set. (#16764 dimstar) + (PR #268 Daniel Kamil Kozar) + * Fixed a crash when resizing the window. (#16680 marcus) (PR #269 Daniel Kamil Kozar) + * Fixed bashism in autotools. (#16836 lameventanas) (PR #267 Daniel Kamil Kozar) + * Show XEP-0066 OOB URLs in any message, not just headlines + * Fix a user after free (#17200 debarshiray) (PR #266 Ethan Blanton) + * Removed pipelining from BOSH connections (#17025 PR #295 Tom Li) + * Don't try to TLS already secured BOSH connections (#17270 PR #293 Tom Li) + * Fix "Registration timeout" on SASL auth with InspIRCd servers + (and possibly others not based on charybdis/ratbox/ircd-seven) + * Fix issues with plugins that modify outgoing messages + (such as the custom PART/QUIT feature of the IRC More plugin) + * Fix IRC buffer handling. (#12562 PR #272 Shivaram Lingamneni) + * Properly handle AUTHENTICATE as a normal command with server prefix. + * Fix a crash caused by a use after free of the MOTD. + * Fix an out of bounds read in irc_nick_skip_mode. + * Fix a write of a single byte before the start of a buffer in + * Better support for dark themes. (#12572 Alyssa Rosenzweig and Gary Kramlich) + * Fixed IPv6 links by not escaping []'s. (#16391 cyisfor) (PR #270 Daniel Kamil Kozar) + * Only write buddy icons to the cache if they're not already cached. (PR #276 David Woodhouse) + * Rejoin persistent chats after reconnect. (#15687 PR #285 Christof Meerwald) + * Made the WIN32 Transparency plugin work on all platforms. (#3124 PR #287 Daniel Kamil Kozar) + * Ensure search results buttons are labeled (Backport from de2d88e575ee) + * Fix matching unicode smilies. (#17232 gnubfx PR #262 Daniel Kamil Kozar) + * Correctly update mute/unmute status when the remote side mutes/unmutes us. (#17273 PR #302 David Woodhouse) + * Rework the status icon blinking to not used deprecated API. (#17174 zelch PR #264 Daniel Kamil Kozar) + * Don't allow adding a buddy to protocols that don't have an add_buddy callback. (#4061 Paradox) + * Fix handling of search results (#17238 David Woodhouse) + * Port backend-fs to newer api for farstream relay-info property (#17274 bellet) +version 2.12.0 (03/09/2017): + * Fix an out of bounds memory write in purple_markup_unescape_entity. + * Fix use of uninitialised memory if running non-debug-enabled versions of glib + * Updated AIM dev and dist ID's to new ones that were assigned by AOL. + * TLS certificate verification now uses SHA-256 checksums. + * Fixed SASL external auth for Freenode. + * Removed the MSN protocol plugin. It has been unusable and dormant for some + time. MSNP18 has been discontinued and the protocol plugin would require a + large update to start working again. See: http://ismsndeadyet.com/ The + third-party Pidgin SkypeWeb plugin, however, should provide enough + functionality as a replacement if people still want to use MSN: + https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypeweb + * Removed Mxit protocol plugin. The service was closed at the end of + https://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2016-September/024078.htm + * Removed the MySpaceIM protocol plugin. The service has been defunct for a + * Remove the Yahoo! protocol plugin. Yahoo has completely + reimplemented their protocol, so this version is no longer operable as + https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/145715934739/q2-2016-progress-report-on-our-product + A new protocol plugin has been written to support the new protocol. + It can be found here: https://github.com/EionRobb/funyahoo-plusplus + This also removes support for Yahoo! Japan. According to + http://messenger.yahoo.co.jp/ the service ended March 26th, 2014. + * Remove the Facebook (XMPP) account option. According to + https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat the XMPP Chat API service + ended April 30th, 2015. A new protocol plugin has been written, + using a different method, to support Facebook. It can be found at + https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/wiki + * Fixed gnutls certificate validation errors that mainly affected google (Dequis) + * Replaced instances of d.pidgin.im with developer.pidgin.im and updated the + urls to use https. (#17036) + * Fixed issue of messages being silently cut off at 500 characters. Large + messages are now split into parts and sent one by one. (#4753) +version 2.11.0 (06/21/2016): + * 2.10.12 was accidentally released with new additions to the API and + should have been released as 2.11.0. Unfortunately, we did not catch + the mistake until after 2.10.12 was released, but we're fixing it now. + See ChangeLog.API for more information. + * Include the Mozilla certificate bundle. This fixes connecting to servers + with certificates from Let's Encrypt. + * Remove all 1024-bit CAs + * media: fix an issue with ximagesink displaying only a corner cut-out of + a larger webcam video (Jakub Adam) + * mediamanager: update output window destruction so that it reflects recent + changes in the media pipeline structure (Jakub Adam) + * Ported Instantbird's CommandUiOps to libpurple (Dequis) + * Fixed alignment of incoming right-to-left messages in protocols that + don't support rich text + * Fix a potential crash while exiting pidgin + Windows-Specific Changes: + * Use getaddrinfo for DNS to enable IPv6 (#1075) + * Updates to dependencies: + * NSS 3.24 and NSPR 4.12. + * Add support for the newer kerberos-based authentication of AIM 8.x + * Fixed building on Mac OSX (Patrick Cloke) (#16883) + * Stop truncating passwords to 8 characters like old ICQ clients did. + (#16692). If you actually needed this, truncate your password + manually by pressing backspace a few times. + * Base64-decode SASL messages before passing to libsasl (#16268) + * Fixed a buffer overflow. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos. + * Fixed a remote out-of-bounds read. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco + Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0140) + * Fixed a remote out-of-band read. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco + Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0138, TALOS-CAN-0135) + * Fixed an invalid read. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos + * Fixed a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. Discovered by Yves + Younan of Cisco Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0119) + * Fixed an out-of-bounds read discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos. + * Fixed a directory traversal issue. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco + * Fixed a remote denial of service vulnerability that could result in + a null pointer dereference. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos. + * Fixed a remote denial of service that could result in an out-of-bounds + read. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos (TALOS-CAN-0134) + * Fixed multiple remote buffer overflows. Discovered by Yves Younan of + Cisco Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0136) + * Fixed a remote NULL pointer dereference. Discovered by Yves Younan of + Cisco Talos (TALOS-CAN-0137) + * Fixed a remote code execution issue discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco + Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0142) + * Fixed a remote denial of service vulnerability in contact mood + handling. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos (TALOS-CAN-0141) + * Fixed a remote out-of-bounds write vulnerability. Discovered by Yves + Younan of Cisco Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0139) + * Fix a remote out-of-bounds read. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco + Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0143) +version 2.10.12 (12/31/2015): + * purple-url-handler now works with Python 3.x (Daniël van Eeden) + * Fixed an issue where transient startup statuses could be deleted + * The shout smile now matches the default theme (Steve Vaught) + Windows-Specific Changes: + * Updates to dependencies: + * NSS 3.20.1 and NSPR 4.10.10 + * Remove support for Tcl plugins + * Updated internal libgadu to version 1.12.1. +version 2.10.11 (11/23/2014): + * Fix handling of Self-Signed SSL/TLS Certificates when using the NSS + * Improve default cipher suites used with the NSS plugin (#16262) + * Add NSS Preferences plugin which allows the SSL/TLS Versions and + cipher suites to be configured (#8061) + * Fix a bug that prevented plugin to load when compiled without GnuTLS. + * Fix build for platforms without AF_LOCAL definition. (#16404) + * Fix broken login due to server change (dx, TReKiE). (#16451, #16455) + * Fail early when buddy list is unavailable instead of wasting bandwidth +version 2.10.10 (10/22/2014): + * Check the basic constraints extension when validating SSL/TLS + certificates. This fixes a security hole that allowed a malicious + man-in-the-middle to impersonate an IM server or any other https + endpoint. This affected both the NSS and GnuTLS plugins. (Discovered + by an anonymous person and Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project, with + thanks to Moxie Marlinspike for first publishing about this type of + vulnerability. Thanks to Kai Engert for guidance and for some of the + NSS changes) (CVE-2014-3694) + * Allow and prefer TLS 1.2 and 1.1 when using the NSS plugin for SSL. + (Elrond and Ashish Gupta) (#15909) + libpurple3 compatibility: + * Encrypted account passwords are preserved until the new one is set. + * Fix loading Google Talk and Facebook XMPP accounts. + Windows-Specific Changes: + * Don't allow overwriting arbitrary files on the file system when the + user installs a smiley theme via drag-and-drop. (Discovered by Yves + Younan of Cisco Talos) (CVE-2014-3697) + * Updates to dependencies: + * NSS 3.17.1 and NSPR 4.10.7 + * Fix build against Python 3. (Ed Catmur) (#15969) + * Updated internal libgadu to version 1.12.0. + * Fix potential remote crash parsing server message that indicates that + a large amount of memory should be allocated. (Discovered by Yves Younan + and Richard Johnson of Cisco Talos) (CVE-2014-3696) + * Fix a possible leak of unencrypted data when using /me command + with OTR. (Thijs Alkemade) (#15750) + * Fix potential remote crash parsing a malformed emoticon response. + (Discovered by Yves Younan and Richard Johnson of Cisco Talos) + * Fix potential information leak where a malicious XMPP server and + possibly even a malicious remote user could create a carefully crafted + XMPP message that causes libpurple to send an XMPP message containing + arbitrary memory. (Discovered and fixed by Thijs Alkemade and Paul + Aurich) (CVE-2014-3698) + * Fix Facebook XMPP roster quirks. (#15041, #15957) + * Fix login when using the GnuTLS library for TLS connections. (#16172) +version 2.10.9 (2/2/2014): + * Fix problems logging into some servers including jabber.org and + chat.facebook.com. (#15879) +version 2.10.8 (1/28/2014): + * Python build scripts and example plugins are now compatible with + Python 3. (Ashish Gupta) (#15624) + * Fix potential crash if libpurple gets an error attempting to read a + reply from a STUN server. (Discovered by Coverity static analysis) + * Fix potential crash parsing a malformed HTTP response. (Discovered by + Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project) (CVE-2013-6479) + * Fix buffer overflow when parsing a malformed HTTP response with + chunked Transfer-Encoding. (Discovered by Matt Jones, Volvent) + * Better handling of HTTP proxy responses with negative Content-Lengths. + (Discovered by Matt Jones, Volvent) + * Fix handling of SSL certificates without subjects when using libnss. + * Fix handling of SSL certificates with timestamps in the distant future + when using libnss. (#15586) + * Impose maximum download size for all HTTP fetches. + * Fix crash displaying tooltip of long URLs. (CVE-2013-6478) + * Better handling of URLs longer than 1000 letters. + * Fix handling of multibyte UTF-8 characters in smiley themes. (#15756) + Windows-Specific Changes: + * When clicking file:// links, show the file in Explorer rather than + attempting to run the file. This reduces the chances of a user + clicking on a link and mistakenly running a malicious file. + (Originally discovered by James Burton, Insomnia Security. Rediscovered + by Yves Younan of Sourcefire VRT.) (CVE-2013-6486) + * Fix Tcl scripts. (#15520) + * Fix crash-on-startup when ASLR is always on. (#15521) + * Updates to dependencies: + * NSS 3.15.4 and NSPR 4.10.2 + Patched for https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668154 + * Fix untrusted certificate error. + * Fix a possible crash when receiving a malformed message in a Direct IM + * Fix buffer overflow with remote code execution potential. Only + triggerable by a Gadu-Gadu server or a man-in-the-middle. + (Discovered by Yves Younan and Ryan Pentney of Sourcefire VRT) + * Disabled buddy list import/export from/to server (it didn't work + anymore). Buddy list synchronization will be implemented in 3.0.0. + * Disabled new account registration and password change options, as it + didn't work either. Account registration also caused a crash. Both + functions are available using official Gadu-Gadu website. + * Fix bug where a malicious server or man-in-the-middle could trigger + a crash by not sending enough arguments with various messages. + (Discovered by Daniel Atallah) (CVE-2014-0020) + * Fix bug where initial IRC status would not be set correctly. + * Fix bug where IRC wasn't available when libpurple was compiled with + Cyrus SASL support. (#15517) + * Fix NULL pointer dereference parsing headers in MSN. + (Discovered by Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger of the + University of Goettingen) (CVE-2013-6482) + * Fix NULL pointer dereference parsing OIM data in MSN. + (Discovered by Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger of the + University of Goettingen) (CVE-2013-6482) + * Fix NULL pointer dereference parsing SOAP data in MSN. + (Discovered by Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger of the + University of Goettingen) (CVE-2013-6482) + * Fix possible crash when sending very long messages. Not + remotely-triggerable. (Discovered by Matt Jones, Volvent) + * Fix buffer overflow with remote code execution potential. + (Discovered by Yves Younan and Pawel Janic of Sourcefire VRT) + * Fix sporadic crashes that can happen after user is disconnected. + * Fix crash when attempting to add a contact via search results. + * Show error message if file transfer fails. + * Fix compiling with InstantBird. + * Fix display of some custom emoticons. + * Correctly set whiteboard dimensions in whiteboard sessions. + * Fix buffer overflow with remote code execution potential. + (Discovered by Yves Younan of Sourcefire VRT) (CVE-2013-6490) + * Prevent spoofing of iq replies by verifying that the 'from' address + matches the 'to' address of the iq request. (Discovered by Fabian + Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger of the University of Goettingen, + fixed by Thijs Alkemade) (CVE-2013-6483) + * Fix crash on some systems when receiving fake delay timestamps with + extreme values. (Discovered by Jaime Breva Ribes) (CVE-2013-6477) + * Fix possible crash or other erratic behavior when selecting a very + small file for your own buddy icon. + * Fix crash if the user tries to initiate a voice/video session with a + * Fix login errors when the first two available auth mechanisms fail but + a subsequent mechanism would otherwise work when using Cyrus SASL. + * Fix dropping incoming stanzas on BOSH connections when we receive + multiple HTTP responses at once. (Issa Gorissen) (#15684) + * Fix possible crashes handling incoming strings that are not UTF-8. + (Discovered by Thijs Alkemade and Robert Vehse) (CVE-2012-6152) + * Fix a bug reading a peer to peer message where a remote user could + trigger a crash. (CVE-2013-6481) + * Fix crash in contact availability plugin. + * Fix perl function Purple::Network::ip_atoi + * Add Unity integration plugin. +version 2.10.7 (02/13/2013): + * The configure script will now exit with status 1 when specifying + invalid protocol plugins using the --with-static-prpls and + --with-dynamic-prpls arguments. (Michael Fiedler) (#15316) + * Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values. + * Don't link directly to libgcrypt when building with GnuTLS support. + (Bartosz Brachaczek) (#15329) + * Fix UPnP mappings on routers that return empty <URLBase/> elements + in their response. (Ferdinand Stehle) (#15373) + * Tcl plugin uses saner, race-free plugin loading. + * Fix the Tcl signals-test plugin for savedstatus-changed. + (Andrew Shadura) (#15443) + * Make Pidgin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, such as MacPorts' +no_x11 + * Fix a crash at startup with large contact list. Avatar support for + buddies will be disabled until 3.0.0. (#15226, #14305) + * Support for SASL authentication. (Thijs Alkemade, Andy Spencer) + * Print topic setter information at channel join. (#13317) + * Fix SSL certificate issue when signing into MSN for some users. + * Fix a crash when removing a user before its icon is loaded. (Mark + * Fix two bugs where a remote MXit user could possibly specify a local + file path to be written to. (CVE-2013-0271) + * Fix a bug where the MXit server or a man-in-the-middle could + potentially send specially crafted data that could overflow a buffer + and lead to a crash or remote code execution. (CVE-2013-0272) + * Display farewell messages in a different colour to distinguish + them from normal messages. + * Add support for typing notification. + * Add support for the Relationship Status profile attribute. + * Remove all reference to Hidden Number. + * Ignore new invites to join a GroupChat if you're already joined, or + still have a pending invite. + * The buddy's name was not centered vertically in the buddy-list if they + did not have a status-message or mood set. + * Fix decoding of font-size changes in the markup of received messages. + * Increase the maximum file size that can be transferred to 1 MB. + * When setting an avatar image, no longer downscale it to 96x96. + * Fix a crash in Sametime when a malicious server sends us an abnormally + long user ID. (CVE-2013-0273) + * Fix a double-free in profile/picture loading code. (Mihai Serban) + * Fix retrieving server-side buddy aliases. (Catalin Salgau) (#15381) + * The Voice/Video Settings plugin supports using the sndio GStreamer + backends. (Brad Smith) (#14414) + * Fix a crash in the Contact Availability Detection plugin. (Mark) + * Make the Message Notification plugin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, + such as MacPorts' +no_x11 variant. + Windows-Specific Changes: + * Compile with secure flags (Jurre van Bergen) (#15290) + * Installer downloads GTK+ Runtime and Debug Symbols more securely. + Thanks goes to Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project for identifying + this issue and suggesting solutions. (#15277) + * Updates to a number of dependencies, some of which have security + related fixes. Thanks again to Jacob Appelbaum and Jurre van Bergen + for identifying the vulnerable libraries and to Dieter Verfaillie + for helping getting the libraries updated. (#14571, #15285, #15286) + * NSS 3.13.6 and NSPR 4.9.2 + * Patch libmeanwhile (sametime library) to fix crash. (Jonathan Rice) +version 2.10.6 (07/06/2012): + * Fix a bug that requires a triple-click to open a conversation + window from the buddy list. (#15199) +version 2.10.5 (07/05/2012): + * Add support for GNOME3 proxy settings. (Mihai Serban) (#15054) + * Fix a crash that may occur when trying to ignore a user who is + not in the current chat room. (#15139) + * Fix building with MSVC on Windows (broken in 2.10.4). (Florian + * Fix a buffer overflow vulnerability when parsing incoming messages + containing inline images. Thanks to Ulf Härnhammar for reporting +version 2.10.4 (05/06/2012): + * Support building against Farstream in addition to Farsight. + (Olivier Crete) (#14936) + * Disable periodic WHO timer. IRC channel user lists will no + longer automatically display away status, but libpurple will be + much kinder to the network. + * Print unknown numerics to channel windows if we can associate + them. Thanks to Marien Zwart. (#15090) + * Fix a possible crash when receiving messages with certain characters + or character encodings. Thanks to Fabian Yamaguchi for reporting + * Fix a possible crash when receiving a series of specially crafted + file transfer requests. Thanks to José Valentín Gutiérrez for + reporting this! (CVE-2012-2214) + Windows-Specific Changes: + * Words added to spell check dictionaries are saved across restarts of +version 2.10.3 (03/26/2012): + * Fix buddies not going offline. (#14997) +version 2.10.2 (03/14/2012): + * Fix compilation when using binutils 2.22 and new GDK pixbuf. (#14799) + * Fix compilation of the MXit protocol plugin with GLib 2.31. (#14773) + * Add support for the GNOME3 Network dialog. (#13882) + * Fix rare crash. (#14392) + * Add support for the GNOME3 Default Application dialog for configuring + * Support new connection states and signals for NetworkManager 0.9+. + (Dan Williams) (#13859) + * Fix a possible crash when receiving an unexpected message + from the server. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14983) + * Allow signing on with usernames containing periods and + * Allow adding buddies containing periods and underscores. (#13500) + * Don't try to format ICQ usernames entered as email addresses. + Gets rid of an "Unable to format username" error at login. (#13883) + * Fix possible crashes caused by not validating incoming messages as + UTF-8. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14884) + * Support new protocol version MSNP18. (#14753) + * Fix messages to offline contacts. (#14302) + Windows-Specific Changes: + * Fix the installer downloading of spell-checking dictionaries (#14612) + * Fix compilation of the Bonjour protocol plugin. (#14802) + * The autoaccept plugin will no longer reset the preference for unknown + buddies to "Auto Reject" in certain cases. (#14964) +version 2.10.1 (12/06/2011): + * Fix compilation on OpenBSD. + * Fix remotely-triggerable crashes by validating strings in a few + messages related to buddy list management. Thanks to Evgeny Boger + for reporting this! (#14682) + * IPv6 fixes (Linus Lüssing) + * Fix problems linking against GnuTLS. (#14544) + * Fix a memory leak when admitting UTF-8 text with a non-UTF-8 primary + * Fix crashes and memory leaks when receiving malformed voice + and video requests. Thanks to Thijs Alkemade for reporting this! + * Separate "username" and "server" when adding new Sametime accounts. + * Fix compilation in Visual C++. (#14608) + * Fix CVE-2011-3594, by UTF-8 validating incoming messages before + passing them to glib or libpurple. Identified by Diego Bauche + Madero from IOActive. (#14636) + * Fetch buddy icons in some cases where we previously weren't. (#13050) + Windows-Specific Changes: +version 2.10.0 (08/18/2011): + * Make the max size of incoming smileys a pref instead of hardcoding it. + (Quentin Brandon) (#5231) + * Added a plugin information dialog to show information for plugins + that aren't otherwise visible in the plugins dialog. + * Fix building with GTK+ earlier than 2.14.0 (GTK+ 2.10 is still the + minimum supported) (#14261) + * Fix a potential crash in the Log Reader plugin when reading QIP logs. + * Fix a large number of strcpy() and strcat() invocations to use + strlcpy() and strlcat(), etc., forestalling an entire class of + string buffer overrun bugs. + (The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Dan Auerbach, Chris Palmer, + * Change some filename manipulations in filectl.c to use MAXPATHLEN + instead of arbitrary length constants. (The Electronic Frontier + Foundation, Dan Auerbach, Chris Palmer, Jacob Appelbaum) + * Fix endianness-related crash in NTLM authentication (Jon Goldberg) + * Fixed searching for buddies in public directory. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) + * Better status message handling. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#14314) + * Merged two buddy blocking methods. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#5303) + * Fix building of the bundled libgadu library with older versions + of GnuTLS. (patch plucked from upstream) (#14365) + * Fix crash selecting Tools->Set Mood when you're online with an + ICQ account that is configured as an AIM account. (#14437) + * Fix a crash when remote users have certain characters in their + nicknames. (Discovered by Djego Ibanez) (#14341) + * Fix the handling of formatting following mIRC ^O (#14436) + * Fix crash when NAMES is empty. (James McLaughlin) (#14518) + * Fix incorrect handling of HTTP 100 responses when using the HTTP + connection method. This can lead to a crash. (Discovered by Marius + * Fix seemingly random crashing. (#14307) + * Fix a crash when the account is disconnected at the time we are doing a + SB request. (Hanzz, ported by shlomif) (#12431) + * Do not generate malformed XML ("</>") when setting an empty mood. + * Fix the /join <room> behavior. (Broken when adding support for + <room>@<server>) (#14205) + * Fix coming out of idle while in an unavailable state + * Fix logging into Yahoo! JAPAN. (#14259) + Windows-Specific Changes: + * Open an explorer.exe window at the location of the file when clicking + on a file link instead of executing the file, because executing a file + can be potentially dangerous. (Discovered by James Burton of + Insomnia Security) (Fixed by Eion Robb) +version 2.9.0 (06/23/2011): + * Fix a potential remote denial-of-service bug related to displaying + * Significantly improved performance of larger IRC channels (regression + * Fix Conversation->Add on AIM and MSN. + * Entries in the chat user list are sorted properly again. This was + inadvertenly broken in 2.8.0. + * Fix logging in to ICQ. + * media: Actually use the specified TCP port from the TURN configuration to + create a TCP relay candidate. + * Fix crashes on some non-mainstream OSes when attempting to + printf("%s", NULL). (Clemens Huebner) (#14297) + * The Evolution Integration plugin compiles again. +version 2.8.0 (06/07/2011): + * Implement simple silence suppression for voice calls, preventing + wasted bandwidth for silent periods during a call. (Jakub Adam) + * Added the DigiCert High Assurance CA-3 intermediate CA, needed for + validation of the Facebook XMPP interface's certificate. + * Removed the QQ protocol plugin. It hasn't worked in a long time and + isn't being maintained, therefore we no longer want it. + * Duplicate code cleanup. (Gabriel Schulhof) (#10599) + * Voice/Video call window adapts correctly to adding or removing + streams on the fly. (Jakub Adam) (half of #13535) + * Don't cancel an ongoing call when rejecting the addition of a + stream to the existing call. (Jakub Adam) (#13537) + * Pidgin plugins can now override tab completion and detect clicks on + usernames in the chat userlist. (kawaii.neko) (#12599) + * Fix the tooltip being destroyed when it is full of information and + cover the mouse (dliang) (#10510) + * media: Allow obtaining active local and remote candidates. (Jakub + * media: Allow getting/setting video capabilities. (Jakub Adam) (half + * Simple Silence Suppression is optional per-account. (Jakub Adam) + * Fix purple-url-handler being unable to find an account. + * media: Allow adding/removing streams on the fly. (Jakub Adam) + * Support new connection states in NetworkManager 0.9. (Dan Williams) + * When removing a buddy, delete the pounces associated with it. + * media: Allow libpurple and plugins to set SDES properties for RTP + conferences. (Jakub Adam) (#12981) + * proxy: Add new "Tor/Privacy" proxy type that can be used to + restrict operations that could leak potentially sensitive data + (e.g. DNS queries). (#11110, #13928) + * media: Add support for using TCP relaying with TURN (will only work with + libnice 0.1.0 and later). + * Fix setting icons with dimensions greater than 64x64 pixels by scaling + them down to at most 64x64. (#12874, #13165) + * Allow showing your status only to buddies. (Mateusz Piękos) (#13358) + * Updated internal libgadu to version 1.10.1. (Robert Matusewicz, + Krzysztof Klinikowski) (#13525) + * Updated internal libgadu to version 1.11.0. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) + * Suppress blank messages that happen when receiving inline + images. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13554) + * Fix sending inline images to remote users, don't crash when + trying to send large (> 256kB) images. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13580) + * Support typing notifications. (Jan Zachorowski, Tomasz Wasilczyk, + Krzysztof Klinikowski) (#13362, #13590) + * Require libgadu 1.11.0 to avoid using internal libgadu. + * Optional SSL connection support for GNUTLS users (not on Windows + yet!). (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13613, #13894) + * Don't count received messages or statuses when determining whether + to send a keepalive packet. (Jan Zachorowski) (#13699) + * Fix a crash when receiving images on Windows or an incorrect + timestamp in the log when receiving images on Linux. (Tomasz + * Support XML events, resulting in immediate update of other users' + buddy icons. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13739) + * Accept poorly formatted URLs from other third-party clients in + the same manner as the official client. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) + * Fix setting icons with dimensions greater than 64x64 pixels by scaling + them down to at most 64x64. (#12874, #13165) + * Fix unsetting your mood when "None" is selected. (Dustin Gathmann) + * Ignore Daylight Saving Time when performing calculations related to + birthdays. (Dustin Gathmann) (#13533) + * It is now possible to specify multiple encodings on the Advanced + tab of an ICQ account's settings by using a comma-delimited list. + (Dmitry Utkin) (#13496) + * Add "authserv" service command. (tomos) (#13337) + * Fix a hard-to-exploit crash in the MSN protocol when using the + HTTP connection method (Reported by Marius Wachtler). + * Support for an Invite Message when adding a buddy. + * Fixed bug in splitting-up of messages that contain a lot of links. + * Fixed crash caused by timer not being disabled on disconnect. + * Clearing of the conversation window now works. + * When receiving an invite you can display the sender's profile + information, avatar image, invite message. + * The Change PIN option was moved into separate action. + * New profile attributes added and shown. + * Update to protocol v6.3. + * Added the ability to view and invite your Suggested Friends, + and to search for contacts. + * Also display the Status Message of offline contacts in their + * Remember the previously entered user directory when searching. + * Correctly handle a buddy's unsetting his/her vCard-based avatar. + (Matthew W.S. Bell) (#13370) + * Squash one more situation that resulted in duplicate entries in + the roster (this one where the server reports the buddy as being + in the same (empty) group. (Reported by Danny Mayer) + * The Voice/Video Settings plugin now includes the ability to test + microphone settings. (Jakub Adam) (#13182) + * Fix a crash when handling some saved settings in the Voice/Video + Settings plugin. (Pat Erley) (13290, #13774) + Windows-Specific Changes: + * Fix building libpurple with Visual C++ .NET 2005. This was + accidentally broken in 2.7.11. (Florian Quèze) + * Build internal libgadu using packed structs, fixing several + long-standing Gadu-Gadu issues. (#11958, #6297) +version 2.7.11 (03/10/2011): + * Our bundled libgadu should now build on HP-UX. + * Fix some instances of file transfers never completing. (Cristi Posoiu) + * Sort by Status no longer causes buddies to move around when you + * Fix embedding in the system tray on older GTK+ releases (such as on + CentOS 5.5 and older Fedora). + * No longer require libstartup-notification for startup notification + support. GTK+ has included support for years, so use it instead. (David + * Fix a bug where some buddies from your buddy list might not show up. + Affected non-English ICQ users the most. (#13386) + * Send keepalives for all types of network connections. Will hopefully + make chat rooms more reliable. (#1449) + * Fix bug that prevented added buddies to your buddy list in certain + circumstances. (#13298) + * MXit plugin and reported client version now follow the libpurple + * Don't try to request profile information for non-user contacts. + * Allow Re-Invite for contacts in Deleted or Rejected state. + * Ensure we don't send packets too fast to the MXit server and trigger + its flood-detection mechanism. Also increased the internal packet queue + * Fix building on platforms with an older glib (inadvertantly broken in + * Don't treat the on-join status storms as 'new arrivals'. (Thijs + * Extend the /join command to support room JIDs, enabling you to join + a room on any server. (Solarius, Matěj Cepl, Tirtha 'wyuka' + * Add support for receiving a limited amount of history when joining a + room (not currently supported by Pidgin and Finch). (Thijs Alkemade) + * Fix CVE-2011-1091, denials of service caused by NULL pointer + dereferences due to improper handling of malformed YMSG packets. Thanks + to Marius Wachtler for reporting this and reviewing the fix! +version 2.7.10 (02/06/2011): + * Force video sources to all have the same capabilities. This reduces the + number of times video must be scaled down, saving CPU time. (Jakub Adam) + * Starting multiple video calls and ending one no longer causes the other + calls to stop sending audio and video. (Jakub Adam) (#12758, #13237) + * Perl bindings now respect LDFLAGS. (Peter Volkov, Markos Chandras) + * Added AddTrust External Root CA. (#11554) + * Resolve some issues validating X.509 certificates signed off the CAcert + Class 3 intermediate cert when using the GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin. + * Don't drop whole messages when text is colored. (Jan Zachorowski) + * Don't show two windows when using "Get Info" on a buddy. (Gabriel Burt; + * Don't send ISON messages longer than 512 bytes. (Jeffrey Honig) (#9692) + * Stop sending audio when placing a call on hold. (Jakub Adam) (#13032) + * Stop translating gpointers to ints in the dbus API. This removes + functions from the dbus API. (The openSUSE Project) (#12507) + * Fix D-Bus introspection calls that omit the interface parameter. (Tom + * Fixed bugs in purple_str_to_time() that caused the most recent 'make + check' failures. (Nader Morshed) (#13131) + * Correct an issue that caused some UIs other than Pidgin or Finch to + leave a buddy in the "is typing" state. (Jan Kaluza) + * Fix potential information disclosure issues in the Cipher code. (Julia + * Support using the Page Up and Page Down keys on the numeric keypad in + the conversation window. (Ryan Flegel) (#13127) + * Fix a few memory leaks. (Nader Morshed) (#13162) + * Support rendering strikethrough when received as in-line CSS. (#13168) + * Editable comboboxes are now more friendly to some GTK+ themes. (Hugo + Pereira Da Costa) (#13164). + * The Voice/Video Settings plugin no longer resets selected devices to + defaults. (Jakub Adam) (#13044) + * The Voice/Video Settings plugin no longer crashes when a stored device + name is not found in the list of available devices. (Jakub Adam) + * The Autoaccept plugin now allows disabling filename escaping. (Rok + Mandeljc) (half of #11459) + * The Autoaccept plugin now allows choosing Reject/Ask/Accept for + non-buddies. (Rok Mandeljc) (half of #11459) + * QQ2008 is now the default protocol version. (Michael Terry) (#11635) + * Don't crash when receiving an unexpected/invalid jingle transport type. + (Nikita Kozlov) (#13136) + * Handle Connection: Close headers for BOSH, when the server does not + terminate the connection itself. (#13008) + * Improved parsing for DIGEST-MD5, which should resolve issues + connecting to some jabberd2 servers. This corrects an issue parsing + one-character or empty elements. (Noa Resare) (#a14514) + * Fix a crash when an account disconnects before a p2p session is + completely set up. (Jan Kaluza) (#12432) +version 2.7.9 (12/26/2010): + * Fix CVE-2010-4528, a crash when receiving short packets related to +version 2.7.8 (12/19/2010): + * Fix the exceptions in purple-remote on Python 2.6+. (Ari Pollak) + * When a conversation has reached the maximum limit on the number + of smileys, display the text representation of the smiley properly + when it contains HTML-escapable characters (e.g. "<3" was previously + * Drop dependency on GdkGC and use Cairo instead. + * New UI hack to assist in first-time setup of Facebook accounts with + icon from Jakub Szypulka. + * Don't hide the buddy list if there is no notification area in which + to put the icon. (#12129) + * Fix multipart parsing when '=' is included in the boundary for + purple_mime_document_parse. (Jakub Adam) (#11598) + * Buddies who unset their status message will now be correctly shown + without a message in your buddy list. (#12988) + * Updated our bundled libgadu and minimum requirement for external + libgadu to 1.9.0. (#12789) + * Stop showing ourselves in the list of endpoints that can be + * Allow full-size display names, by not escaping (most) non-English + * Fix receiving messages from users on Yahoo and other federated + * Correctly remove old endpoints from the list when they sign out. + * Add option to disable connections from multiple locations. (#13017) + * Correctly update your own display name in the buddy list. (#13064) + * Correctly show ourselves as offline in the buddy list when going + * Correctly update your own icon in the buddy list. (#12973) + * Remove struct packing for better portability. (#12856) + * Terminate Jingle sessions with unsupported content types. (#13048) +version 2.7.7 (11/23/2010): + * Allow multiple CA certificates to share the same Distinguished Name + (DN). Partially fixes remaining MSN issues from #12906. + * The GNUTLS SSL plugin now discards any certificate (and all subsequent + certificates) in a chain if it did not sign the previous certificate. + Partially fixes remaining MSN issues from #12906. + * Open requests related to a file transfer are now closed when the request + is cancelled locally. (#11666) + * AIM should now connect if "Use clientLogin" is turned off and the + "Server" field is set to anything other than "login.oscar.aol.com" or + "slogin.oscar.aol.com". (#12948) + * Fix a crash on connection loss. (#5927) +version 2.7.6 (11/21/2010): + * Included Microsoft Internet Authority 2010 and Microsoft Secure Server + Authority 2010 intermediate CA certificates to our bundle. This fixes + the "Unable to validate certificate" error for omega.contacts.msn.com. + * Avoid a use-after-free race condition in the media code (when + there's an error reported by GStreamer). (#12806, Jakub Adam) + * SSL option has been changed to a tri-state menu with choices for + "Don't Use Encryption", "Use Encryption if Available", and "Require + * Fix some possible clientLogin URL issues introduced in version 2.7.5. + * Don't show a "<URL>: Ok" connection error when using clientLogin. + * Cleaned up some debug output for improved readability. + * Added support for MSNP16, including Multiple Points of Presence (MPOP) + which allows multiple simultaneous sign-ins. (#8247) + * Added extended capabilities support (none implemented). + * Merged the work done on the Google SoC (major rewrite of SLP code) + * Reworked the data transfer architecture. + (https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/SlpArchitecture) + * Lots of little changes. + * Don't process zero-length DC messages. (#12660) + * Fixed a bunch of memory leaks. + * Prevent a use-after-free condition. + * Avoid a double-free in the Google Relay (V/V) code. + * Avoid double error message when failing a file transfer. (#12757) + * Password-related information is printed out for SASL authentication + when the PURPLE_UNSAFE_DEBUG environment variable is set. + * Authentication mechanisms can now be added by UI's or other plugins + with some work. This is outside the API/ABI rules! (#12715) + * Fixed a few printf("%s", NULL) crashes for broken OSes. + Windows-Specific Changes: + * Build the Pidgin Theme Editor plugin (finally). + * Untarring (for themes) now works for non-ASCII destination paths. +version 2.7.5 (10/31/2010): + * Added Verisign Class 3 Public CA - G2 root CA. + * Properly differentiate between bn and bn_IN in the Translation + * Display the "Authorize buddy?" minidialog when the requestor has an + empty nickname. (#12810) + * New ICQ accounts default to proper ICQ servers. Old accounts using one + of the old default servers will be silently migrated to use the proper + * ICQ accounts using clientLogin now use the correct ICQ servers. This is + separate from the server settings mentioned above. + * '<' should no longer cause ICQ status messages to be truncated in some + locations. (#11964, #12593) + * Fix sending messages to chat rooms. (#12768) + * Don't crash when attempting to log into a Bonjour account and init + Windows-Specific Changes: + * Quote the path stored in the registry when the "run at startup" option + in the Windows Pidgin Options plugin is used. (#12781) +version 2.7.4 (10/20/2010): + * Fix search path for Tk when compiling on Debian Squeeze. (#12465) + * purple-remote now expects and produces UTF-8. (Guillaume Brunerie) + * Add Deutsche Telekom, Thawte Primary, and Go Daddy Class 2 root CAs + (#12667, #12668, and #12594) + * Fix CVE-2010-3711 by properly validating return values from the + purple_base64_decode() function before using them. + * Fix two local crash bugs by properly validating return values from the + purple_base16_decode() function before using them. + * Fall back to an ordinary request if a UI does not support showing a + request with an icon. Fixes receiving MSN file transfer requests + including a thumbnail in Finch. (#12561) + * Fix an invalid memory access when removing UPnP mappings that could + cause sporadic crashes, most notably when MSN Direct Connections are + * Add a sentence to the certificate warning for expired certificates + suggesting the user check their computer's date and time. (#12654) + * Add support for the Gadu-Gadu protocol in the gevolution plugin to + provide Evolution integration with contacts with GG IDs. (#10709) + * Remap the "Set User Mood" shortcut to Control-D, which does not + conflict with the previous shortcut for Get Buddy Info on the + * Add a plugin action menu (under Tools) for the Voice and Video + * Use GRegex for the debug window where available. This brings regex + filtering to the debug window on Windows. (Eion Robb) (#12601) + * Add Google Chrome to the list of possible browsers on non-Windows + * Add Chromium to the list of possible browsers on non-Windows systems. + * The "Manual" browser option is now stored as a string. It is no + longer necessary to specify a full path to the browser command. + (Rodrigo Tobar Carrizo) (#12024) + * The Send To menu can now be used if the active account in the + conversation becomes disabled or inactive. (Keith Moyer) (#12471) + * xdg-open is now the default browser for new users on non-Windows + platforms. (Stanislav Brabec) (#12505) + * The "Authorize buddy?" mini-dialog now shows the nickname of + the buddy requesting authorization as well as the icon of + the IM protocol he is using. (#5038) + * Add support for drop-down account options (like the SILC cipher + and HMAC options or the QQ protocol version). + * Unify the connection security-related settings into one dropdown. + * Fix a crash when multiple accounts are simultaneously performing + SASL authentication when built with Cyrus SASL support. (thanks + to Jan Kaluza) (#11560) + * Restore the ability to connect to XMPP servers that do not offer + * Added support for using Google's relay servers when making voice and + video calls to Google clients. + * Fix detecting file transfer proxies advertised by the server. + * Advertise support for Google Talk's JID Domain Discovery extension + in all cases again (changed in 2.7.0), not just when the domain + is "gmail.com" or "googlemail.com" (it's also needed for Google + Talk used for accounts on arbitrary domains not using Google Apps + for Your Domain). (#a14153) + * Improved handling of adding oneself to your buddy list when using + Non-SASL (legacy) authentication. (#12499) + * Generate a connection error instead of just stalling when the + _xmppconnect TXT record returns results, but none of them result + in a valid BOSH URI. (#a14367, #12744) + * Add support for managing Visible/Invisible lists. (#10967) + * Fix a problem with receiving HTML messages from + QIP/Miranda/Trillian. (#12044) + * Hopefully fixed all encoding-related problems, both + for sending and receiving messages. (#10833 and the like) + * Fix a problem with receiving messages from pyicqt. (#12284) + * Don't set a custom status text when going Invisible to avoid + being detected as Invisible. (#10633) + * Stop doing unnecessary lookups of certain alias information. This + solves deadlocks when a given Yahoo account has a ridiculously large + (>500 buddies) list and may improve login speed for those on slow + * Fix sending SMS messages. The lookup host changed on us. (Thanks to + * Improvements for some file transfer scenarios, but not all. + * Bonjour support now requires Apple Bonjour Print Services version + 2.0.0 or newer (http://support.apple.com/kb/dl999). + * Fall back to an ordinary request if a UI does not support showing a + request with an icon. Fixes receiving MSN file transfer requests + including a thumbnail in Finch. + * Add support for the Gadu-Gadu protocol in the gevolution plugin to + provide Evolution integration with contacts with GG IDs. (#10709) + * Remap the "Set User Mood" shortcut to Control-D, which does not + conflict with the previous shortcut for Get Buddy Info on the + * Add a plugin action menu (under Tools) for the Voice and Video + * Add support for drop-down account options (like the SILC cipher + and HMAC options or the QQ protocol version). + * Unify the connection security-related settings into one dropdown. + * Fix a crash when multiple accounts are simultaneously performing + SASL authentication when built with Cyrus SASL support. (thanks + to Jan Kaluza) (#11560) + * Restore the ability to connect to XMPP servers that do not offer + * Added support for using Google's relay servers when making voice and + video calls to Google clients. + * Stop doing unnecessary lookups of certain alias information. This + solves deadlocks when a given Yahoo account has a ridiculously large + (>500 buddies) list and may improve login speed for those on slow +version 2.7.3 (08/10/2010): + * Use silent build rules for automake >1.11. You can enable verbose + builds with the --disable-silent-rules configure option, or using + * Fix the TURN server settings (broken in 2.7.0). + * Re-focus the input area after clicking the attention toolbar button. + * Re-arrange media window to make it more netbook-friendly. + * Rebindable 'suggest-next-page' and 'suggest-prev-page' actions for + textboxes (GntEntry) to scroll through list of suggestions. + * Rebindable 'dropdown' action for comboboxes (GntComboBox) to show the + dropdown list of options. + * Fix non-ASCII arguments to /mode et al. (thanks to Max Ulidtko) + * Support for web-based buddy icons, used when a buddy logs in to the + messenger on the Live website. + * Fix file transfers with some clients that don't support direct + connections (e.g., papyon, telepathy-butterfly, etc.) (#12150) + * Fix filename for the Shocked emoticon. (#12364) + * Implement the new naming conventions where possible. (MXitId, etc) + * Display a message in the Groupchat window when you invite somebody. + * Birthday field in profile cannot be edited when server says it is + * If a buddy is offline, show in their profile when last they were online. + * Handle pushed profile update packets (ie, when changing your avatar via + * If a buddy is offline and we see from their profile that they have + updated their avatar, request the new avatar image from the server. + * Fix a possible crash if a link is clicked while disconnected. + * Unescape any escaped characters in a chatroom nickname. + * Add the new MXit moods and emoticons. + * MXit emoticons added to the small emoticon theme. + * Allow connecting to servers that only advertise GSSAPI and expect + a fallback to legacy IQ authentication (broken in 2.7.0). + * Fix a crash when receiving custom emoticons that don't adhere to + * When initiating a file transfer, don't show resources that are certain + to not support file transfers in the resource selection dialog. + * Fix connecting to servers using BOSH and authenticating with + DIGEST-MD5 when libpurple was built with Cyrus SASL support. + * Renamed "Use account proxy for SSL connections" to "Use account proxy + for HTTP and HTTPS requests" and tied the option to HTTP requests too. + * Properly detect HTTP proxy server use when the HTTP proxy is the + global proxy server, an account-level non-HTTP proxy server is + configured, and the "Use account proxy for HTTP and HTTPS requests" + account option is turned off. This fixes connecting for some HTTP + * Fall back to connecting to scsa.msg.yahoo.com (not configurable) if + the HTTP-based connect server lookup fails. This does not work for + * Fix file transfers that get stuck with "Waiting for transfer to +version 2.7.2 (07/21/2010): + * Fix a crash bug related to X-Status messages that can be triggered by + remote users. This is CVE-2010-2528. + * Fix a rare crash bug caused by certain incoming SMS messages + (discovered by Jan Kaluza--thanks Jan!). + * Change HTML sent from ICQ accounts so that official ICQ clients + hopefully display it correctly. + * Fix a crash related to fast buddy icon transfers. +version 2.7.1 (05/29/2010): + * Build fixes on OpenSolaris. (Brian Lu) + * Add configure option --enable-trayicon-compat which installs tray + icons into directories that are compatible with older versions of + hicolor-icon-theme (0.9). + * Restore the tray icon's blinking functionality. + * Fix a crash setting moods when an account is disconnected. + * Fix a crash on disconnect. + * Fix bug that caused HTML to be displayed in incoming messages. + * Fix unnecessary bandwidth consumption for buddy icon requests when + buddies have capital letters in their passport addresses. + * Support for direct connections, enabling faster file transfers, + smiley and buddy icon loading. (Gábor Szuromi) + * Allow connecting to servers that advertise EXTERNAL (broken in + * Replace the MXit-specific mood management with the new standard Moods + * Add the standard MXit emoticons. + * Improve the handling of users being kicked from MultiMX rooms. + * MXit doesn't allow you to see your buddy's Email Address or Title, + so remove those two fields from the "Buddy Information" page. + * Show buddy's Registration Country in their profile. + * Increment protocol version to v6.0 + * If an invite you sent was rejected with a reason, display that + message in the buddy tooltip. + * CAPTCHA value is a required field during account activation. + (Resolves issue on Maemo) + * When your avatar image is changed, don't forget the user's profile + Windows-Specific Changes: + * Fix a regression introduced in 2.7.0 that caused Window Flashing not +version 2.7.0 (05/12/2010): + * Changed GTK+ minimum version requirement to 2.10.0. + * Changed GLib minimum version requirement to 2.12.0. + * Using the --disable-nls argument to configure now works properly. + You will no longer be forced to have intltool to configure and build. + * Fix two related crashes in the GnuTLS and NSS plugins when they + suffer internal errors immediately upon attempting to establish + * Fix NSS to work when reinitialized after being used. (Thanks to + Ludovico Cavedon for the testcase) + * Added support for PURPLE_GNUTLS_PRIORITIES environment variable. + This can be used to specify GnuTLS priorities on a per-host basis. + The format is "host=priority;host2=priority;...". The default + priority can be overridden by using "*" as the host. See the + GnuTLS manual for documentation on the format of the priority + * Fix autoconf detection of Python. (Brad Smith) + * Fix a crash when a Windows proxy (from IE) does not have a port. + * Moved the "Debugging Information" section of the About box to a + "Build Information" dialog accessible on the Help menu. + * Moved the Developer and Crazy Patch Writer information from the About + box to a "Developer Information" dialog accessible on the Help menu. + * Moved the Translator information from the About box to a "Translator + Information" dialog accessible on the Help menu. + * Use GtkStatusIcon for the docklet, providing better integration in + * Added UI for sending attentions (buzz, nudge) on supporting protocols. + * Make the search dialog unobtrusive in the conversation window (by + making it look and behave like the search dialog in Firefox) + * The Recent Log Activity sort method for the Buddy List now + distinguishes between no activity and a small amount of activity + in the distant past. (Greg McNew) + * Added a menu set mood globally for all mood-supporting accounts + (currently XMPP and ICQ). + * Default binding of Ctrl+Shift+v to 'Paste as Plain Text' in + conversation windows. This can be changed in .gtkrc-2.0. For example, + Ctrl+v can be bound to 'Paste as Plain Text' by default. + * Plugins can now handle markup in buddy names by attaching to the + "drawing-buddy" signal. (Daniele Ricci, Andrea Piccinelli) + * Be more accommodating when scaling down large images for use as + * The 'Message Timestamp Formats' plugin allows changing the timestamp + format from the timestamps' context menu in conversation log. + * The 'Message Timestamp Formats' plugin allows forcing 12-hour + timestamps. (Jonathan Maltz) + * Fix pastes from Chrome (rich-text pastes and probably URLs + having garbage appended to them). + * Show file transfer thumbnails for images on supporting protocols + (currently only supported on MSN). + * Added support for IPv6. (Thanks to T_X for testing) + * Updated our bundled libgadu to 1.9.0-rc2 (many thanks to Krzysztof + Klinikowski for the work and testing put in here!) + * Minimum requirement for external libgadu is now also 1.9.0-rc2. + * X-Status (Custom ICQ status icon) support. Since most of the icons + available reflect moods, this is labeled "Set Mood" on the + Accounts->ICQ Account menu. (Andrew Ivanov, Tomáš Kebert, + Yuriy Yevgrafov, and trac users bob007, salieff, and nops) + * Allow setting and displaying icons between 1x1 and 100x100 pixels for + ICQ. Previously only icons between 48x48 and 52x64 were allowed. + * When using the clientLogin authentication method, prompt for a + password on reconnect when "Remember Password" is not checked and + authentication fails due to an incorrect password. (This is the same + behavior as the legacy authentication method) + * Support sending and receiving HTML-formatted messages for ICQ. + * Use the proper URL for "View web profile" link for ICQ buddies. + * Support for version 9 of the MSN protocol has been removed. This + version is no longer supported on the servers. + * Support file transfer thumbnails (previews) for images. + * Fix CVE-2010-1624 (custom emoticon remote crash). + * Direct messages to a specific resource only upon receipt of a message + with content (as opposed to a typing notification, etc). (Thanks to + * Present a better error message when authentication fails while trying + to connect to Facebook. (David Reiss, Facebook) + * When sending data using in-band-bytestreams, interpret the block-size + attribute as the size of the BASE64-encoded representation of the + * Validate the hash on incoming BoB data objects (for custom smileys + etc.), cache based per JID when the CID is not a valid hash (as + specified by the BoB XEP). + * Send whitespace keepalives if we haven't sent data in a while (2 + minutes). This fixes an issue with Openfire disconnecting a + libpurple-baesd client that has just been quiet for about 6 + * Only support Google Talk's JID Domain Discovery extension + (allowing a user to log in with "@gmail.com" or "@googlemail.com" + interchangeably) for those two domains. This change was made + due to interoperability issues with some BOSH Connection Managers + and namespaced attributes. + * Attempt to better handle transparent proxies interfering with + * Fix handling of P2P packets, thus fixing the loss of some messages. + * Retrieve the pager server address from Yahoo!'s servers directly. + * Removed the "Pager server" account option, as it is no longer needed. + * The authentication code is now less order-sensitive with the + components of the server's response. + * The authentication process now acts more like the official client. + * New action 'history-search', with default binding ctrl+r, to search + the entered string in the input history. + Windows-Specific Changes + * Updated GTK+ to 2.16.6 + * Private GTK+ Runtime now used (GTK+ Installer no longer supported) + * Minimum required GTK+ version increased to 2.14.7 + * Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows ME + (Millennium Edition), and Windows NT 4.0 longer supported due to GTK+ + * Crash Report files (pidgin.RPT) are now generated in the ~/.purple + directory instead of the installation directory. + * NSS SSL Library upgraded to 3.12.5 (thanks to Berke Viktor) + * GtkSpell upgraded to 2.0.16, changing the spellchecking backend to + enchant. This means that myspell and hunspell (OpenOffice) + dictionaries can be used (previous versions' aspell dictionaries +version 2.6.6 (02/18/2010): + * Fix 'make check' on OS X. (David Fang) + * Fix a quirk in purple_markup_html_to_xhtml that caused some messages + to be improperly converted to XHTML. + * Set "controlling-mode" correctly when initializing a media session. + Fixes receiving voice calls from Psi. + * When looking up DNS records, use the type of record returned by the + server (instead of the type we asked for) to determine how to process + * Fix an issue with parsing XML attributes that contain "<br>". + See ChangeLog.API for more details. + * Correctly disable all missing dependencies when using the + --disable-missing-dependencies option. (Gabriel Schulhof) + * Fix display of avatars after a server-side change. (Krzysztof + * Allow setting and displaying icons between 1x1 and 100x100 pixels. + Previously only icons between 48x48 and 50x50 were allowed. + * Fix CVE-2010-0277, a possible remote crash when parsing an incoming + SLP message. (Discovered by Fabian Yamaguchi) + * File transfer requests will no longer cause a crash if you delete the + file before the other side accepts. + * Received files will no longer hold an extra lock after completion, + meaning they can be moved or deleted without complaints from your OS. + * Buddies who sign in from a second location will no longer cause an + unnecessary chat window to open. + * Support setting an animated GIF as a buddy icon. + * Numerous code cleanups and memory savings. + * Fix a leak and crash when retrieving buddy icons. + * Less likely to send messages to a contact's idle/inactive resource. + Previously, if a message was received from a specific resource, + responses would be sent to that resource until either it went offline + or a message is received from another resource. Now, messages are + sent to the bare JID upon receipt of any presence change from the + * Added support for the SCRAM-SHA-1 SASL mechanism. This is only + available when built without Cyrus SASL support. + * When getting info on a domain-only (server) JID, show uptime + (when given by the result of the "last query") and don't show status + * Fix getting info on your own JID. + * Wrap XHTML messages in <p>, as described in XEP-0071, for + compatibility with some clients. + * Don't do an SRV lookup for a STUN server associated with the account + if one is already set globally in prefs. + * Don't send custom smileys larger than the recommended maximum object + size specified in the BoB XEP. This prevents a client from being + disconnected by servers that dislike overly-large stanzas. + * Fix receiving messages without markup over an Openfire BOSH + connection (forcibly put the stanzas in the jabber:client namespace). + * The default value for the file transfer proxies is automatically + updated when an account connects, if it is still the old (broken) + default (from 'proxy.jabber.org' to 'proxy.eu.jabber.org'). + * Fix an issue where libpurple created duplicate buddies if the roster + contains a buddy in two groups that differ only by case + (e.g. "XMPP" and "xmpp") (or not at all). + * Don't send <span> and </span> tags. (Fartash Faghri) + * Support PingBox. PingBoxes will appear as pbx/PingBoxName. (Kartik + * Fix CVE-2010-0423, a denial of service attack due to the parsing + of large numbers of smileys. (Discovered by Antti Hayrynen) + * Correctly size conversation and status box entries when the + interior-focus style property is diabled. (Gabriel Schulhof) + * Correctly handle a multiline text field being required in a + request form. (Thanks to Florian Zeitz for finding this problem) + * Search friends by email-addresses in the buddy list. (Luoh Ren-Shan) + * Allow dropping an image on Custom Smiley window to add a new one. + * Prompt for confirmation when clearing a whiteboard (doodle) session. + * Use the "hand" cursor when hovering over usernames in chat history to + indicate that the username is an actionable item. + * Double-clicking usernames in chat history will open an IM with that + * Put an icon on the "Filter" button in the debug window. + * Don't treat "/messages/like/this " as commands. + * Explicitly mark user interaction when inserting smilies from the + toolbar so "Undo" correctly removes these smilies. + * Clicking "New" or "Saved" in the status selector menu while typing a + status message no longer keeps the status entry area stuck in "typing" + * Show tooltips for ellipsized conversation tabs. On older systems, + tooltips will show for all tabs. + * The File Transfers and Debug Window windows are no longer created as + dialogs. These windows should now have minimize buttons in many + environments in which they were previously missing + * Smiley themes with Windows line endings no longer cause theme + descriptions not to be displayed in the theme selector. + * Fix CVE-2010-0420, a possible remote crash when handling chat room + * Rebindable 'move-first' and 'move-last' actions for tree widgets. So + it is possible to jump to the first or last entry in the buddy list + (and other such lists) by pressing home or end key (defaults) +version 2.6.5 (01/08/2010): + * TLS certificates are actually stored to the local cache once again + (accepting a name mismatch on a certificate should now be remembered) + * Build-time fixes for Solaris. (Paul Townsend) + * Messages from some mobile clients are no longer displayed as + Chinese characters (broken in 2.6.4) + * Fix an issue allowing a remote user to download arbitrary files from + a libpurple client. (CVE-2010-0013) + * Do not crash when attempting to register for a new account on Windows. + * Fix file transfer with clients that do not support Entity Capabilities +version 2.6.4 (11/29/2009): + * Actually emit the hold signal for media calls. + * Fix building the GnuTLS plugin with older versions of GnuTLS. + * Fix DNS TXT query resolution. + * Don't send Proxy-Authorization headers to HTTP proxy servers until + we've received a "407 Proxy Authentication Required" response from + * Added "MXit" protocol plugin, supported and maintained by the MXit + folks themselves (MXit Lifestyle (Pty) Ltd.) + * New 'plugins' sub-command to 'debug' command (i.e. '/debug plugins') + to announce the list of loaded plugins (in both Finch and Pidgin). + * Always rejoin open chats after an account reconnects. + * Better rate limit calculations and other improvements. (Aman Gupta) + * More detailed error messages when messages fail to send. (Aman Gupta) + * The simultaneous login account option is respected when using + the clientLogin authentication method. + * Fix offline message retrieval (broken in 2.6.3) + * Fix handling of markup on some messages (broken in 2.6.2) + * Fix SSL when clientLogin is enabled. + * Fix sending and receiving Unicode characters in a Direct IM + * Don't forget display names for buddies. + * Fix a random crash that might occur when idle. + * Fix more FQY 240 connection errors. + * Fix a crash that could occur when adding a buddy. + * Fix an occasional crash when sending message to an offline user. + * Fix a random crash that might occur when idle. + * Fix a crash when logging in with some long non-ASCII passwords. + * Cache our own friendly name as the server no longer does that for + us. Users of older versions may need to re-set their friendly name + as it has probably been reset. + * Users connecting to Google Talk now have an "Initiate Chat" context + menu option for their buddies. (Eion Robb) + * Fix a crash when attempting to validate an invalid JID. + * Resolve an issue when connecting to iChat Server when no resource + * Try to automatically find a STUN server by using an SRV lookup on the + account's domain, and use that for voice and video if found and the + user didn't set one manually in prefs. + * Fix a crash when adding a buddy without an '@'. + * Don't show the option to send a file to a buddy if we know for certain + they don't support any file transfer method supported by libpurple. + * Keep the avatar on the server if one is not set locally. + * Fix blocking behavior for federated (MSN/OCS/Sametime) service users. + * Add support for adding OCS and Sametime buddies. OCS users are added + as "ocs/user@domain.tld" and Sametime users are added as + "ibm/sametime_id". (Jason Cohen) + * The TinyURL plugin now creates shorter URLs for long non-conversation + URLs, e.g. URLs to open Inbox in Yahoo/MSN protocols, or the Yahoo + Captcha when joining chat rooms. + * Fix displaying umlauts etc. in non-utf8 locale (fix in libgnt). + * The userlist in a multiuser chat can be styled via gtkrc by using the + widget name "pidgin_conv_userlist". (Heiko Schmitt) + * Add a hold button to the media window. + * Fix a bug where the conversation backlog stops scrolling in a very + * In the Conversation "Send To" menu, offline buddies appear grayed + out (but are still selectable). Previously, only offline buddies on + accounts that do not support offline messaging appeared grayed out. + Pidgin Preference and Preference Window Changes: + * Removed the "Use font from theme" and "Conversation Font" preferences + for everyone except Windows users. The font can be controlled from + the Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin. + * Tabs in the Preferences window are now on the left side. + * The Browser tab is now visible for GNOME users. + * Added a Proxy tab shown no matter what environment Pidgin runs in. + * The Browser and Proxy tabs show appropriate GNOME-specific messages + and allow launching the correct applications to change the relevant + GNOME preferences if found. These were previously together on the + * Moved the port range spin buttons on the Network tab to be beside the + checkbox that enables/disables them. + * Reorganized preferences on the Status/Idle tab to have one less + * Reorganized preferences on the Sounds tab to have one less "section." + * Renamed Smiley Themes tab to Themes. + * Moved Buddy List Theme and Status Icon Theme selectors from Interface + * Moved Sound Theme selector from Sounds tab to Themes tab. + * Changed the Smiley Theme selector to be consistent with the other + * Rearranged tabs such that Interface is first and all remaining tabs + are alphabetized in English. +version 2.6.3 (10/16/2009): + * Fix a crash when performing DNS queries on Unixes that use the + blocking DNS lookups. (Brian Lu) + * Fix a crash when some clients send contacts in a format we don't + * Fix blocking and other privacy lists. (Thanks to AOL) +version 2.6.2 (09/05/2009): + * Fix --disable-avahi to actually disable it in configure, as opposed + to just making the warning non-fatal. + * Fix using GNOME proxy settings properly. (Erik van Pienbroek) + * Fix parsing of invalid TOPIC messages. (CVE-2009-2703) + * Sending custom smileys in chats is now supported. + * Ink messages are now saved when using the HTML logger. + * Fix a crash when receiving some handwritten messages. + * Fix a crash when receiving certain SLP invite messages. + * Chats with multiple people should no longer spontaneously + * Prompt the user before cancelling a presence subscription. + * Escape status messages that have HTML entities in the Get Info dialog. + * Fix connecting to XMPP domains with no SRV records from Pidgin on + * Fix typing notifications with Pidgin 2.5.9 or earlier. + * Fix connecting using BOSH and legacy authentication (XEP-0078). + * Adding buddies of the form "romeo@montague.net/Resource" are handled + properly. In addition, it is no longer possible to add buddies of + the form "room@conference.example.net/User", where + room@conference.example.net is a MUC. + * Don't crash when receiving "smileyfied" XHTML-IM from clients that + don't support bits of binary (ie. when getting an empty <data/> in + * Fix bug where SSL/TLS was not required even though the + "require SSL/TLS" preference checked when connecting to servers + that use the older iq-based authentication. (CVE-2009-3026) + * Accounts now have "Use account proxy for SSL connections" option. + This option force-overrides the account specific proxy settings for + SSL connections only and instead uses the global proxy configuration. + * Properly detect libpanel on OpenBSD. (Brad Smith) + * Remove IO watches in gnt_quit. (Tomasz Mon) + * Fix the auto-personize functionality in the Buddy List. + * Set the window icon for the media window to an icon corresponding to + the type of call (headphone or webcam). + * Customized sound files are no longer reset whenever opening the + * The buddy list should now immediately refresh upon changing the icon +version 2.6.1 (08/18/2009): + * Fix a crash when some users send you a link in a Yahoo IM + * Fix compilation with GTK+ < 2.6.0 + * Fix compilation on Windows +version 2.6.0 (08/18/2009): + * Theme support in libpurple thanks to Justin Rodriguez's summer of code + project, with some minor additions and cleanups from Paul Aurich. + * Voice & Video framework in libpurple, thanks to Mike Ruprecht's summer + of code project in 2008. + * It should no longer be possible to end up with duplicates of buddies + in a group on the buddy list. + * Removed the unmaintained and unneeded toc protocol plugin. + * Fixed NTLM authentication on big-endian systems. + * Various memory cleanups when unloading libpurple. (Nick Hebner and + * Report idle time 'From last message sent' should work properly. + * Better handling of corrupt certificates in the TLS Peers cache. + * More efficient buddy list and conversation search functions. + (Jan Kaluza and Aman Gupta) + * Install scalable versions of the main Pidgin icon, the protocol icons, + the dialog icons, and the Buddy List emblems. + * Build properly on Hurd. (Marc Dequènes) + * Various memory leaks fixed as reported by Josh Mueller. + * Properly handle an IRC buddy appearing in multiple groups. + * Escape HTML entities in usernames when written with the HTML logger. + * Do not display MySpace status changes as incoming IMs. (Mark Doliner + * DNS servers are re-read when DNS queries fail in case the system has + moved to a new network and the old servers are not accessible. + * DNS SRV records with equal priority are sorted with respect to their + weight as specified in RFC 2782. (Vijay Raghunathan) + * Don't do IPv6 address lookups if the computer does not have an IPv6 + * Fix a leak when the UI provides its own DNS resolving UI op. + * Don't fork a DNS resolver process to resolve IP addresses. + * Internationalized Domain Names are supported when libpurple is + compiled against the GNU IDN library. + * GnuTLS logging (disabled by default) can be controlled through the + PURPLE_GNUTLS_DEBUG environment variable, which is an integer between + 0 and 9 (higher is more verbose). Higher values may reveal sensitive + * PURPLE_VERBOSE_DEBUG environment variable. Currently, this is an "on" + or "off" variable. Set it to any value to turn it on and unset it to + turn it off. This will optionally be used to only show less useful + debug information on an as-needed basis. + * PURPLE_LEAKCHECK_HELP environment variable. Currently, this is an + "on" or "off" variable. Set it to any value to turn it on and unset + it to turn it off. This will be used to perform various actions + that are useful when running libpurple inside of Valgrind or similar + programs. Currently, it keeps plugins in memory, allowing Valgrind + to perform symbol resolution of leak traces at shutdown. + * Preliminary support for a new authentication scheme called + * Fixed a bug where your away message sometimes would not get set when + * Make sure links in your away messages show up as links to other + * For ICQ, Never change the privacy setting specified by the user. + * Accounts can specify a server to which to connect. + (Krzysztof "kreez" Tobola) + * Correctly show tooltip status for contacts with status messages. + (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" Klinikowski) + * Support for fetching buddy icons. (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" Klinikowski) + * Support connection progress steps in Gadu-Gadu. (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" + * Add support for receiving handwritten (ink) messages on MSN. (Chris + Stafford, Gal Topper, and Elliott Sales de Andrade) + * Add support for receiving audio clips on MSN. (Chris Stafford, Gal + Topper, and Elliott Sales de Andrade) + * Show the invite message for buddies that requested authorization + * Support sending an invite message to buddies when requesting + authorization from them on MSN. + * Timeout switchboard connections after 60 seconds (msn-pecan devs). + * Voice & Video support with Jingle (XEP-0166, 0167, 0176, & 0177), + voice support with GTalk and voice and video support with the GMail + web client. (Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht) + * Added a Service Discovery Browser plugin for Pidgin. + * Support for in-band bytestreams for file transfers (XEP-0047). (Marcus + * Support for sending and receiving attentions (equivalent to "buzz" + and "nudge") using the command /buzz. (XEP-0224) + * Support for connecting using BOSH. (Tobias Markmann) + * A buddy's local time is displayed in the Get Info dialog if the remote + * The set_chat_topic function can unset the chat topic. + * The Ad-Hoc commands associated with our server are now always shown at + * Support showing and reporting idle times in the buddy list. (XEP-0256) + * Support most recent version of User Avatar. (XEP-0084 v1.1) + * Updated Entity Capabilities support. (Tobias Markmann) + * Better support for receiving remote users' nicknames. + * /affiliate and /role will now list the room members with the specified + affiliation/role if possible. (Andrei Mozzhuhin) + * Put section breaks between resources in "Get Info" to improve + * Silently remove invalid XML 1.0 entities (e.g. ASCII control + characters) from sent messages. + * XHTML markup is only included in outgoing messages when the message + * Show when the user was last logged in when doing "Get Info" on an + offline buddy, provided the server supports it. + * Support custom smileys in MUCs (only when all participants support the + "Bits of Binary" extension, and a maximum of 10 participants are in + the chat to avoid getting too many fetch requests). + * Fix an issue with Jabber (pre-XMPP) servers and the user's preference + to require SSL not being respected. + * Fix an issue where Cyrus SASL DIGEST MD5 authentication might fail if + the username, password, or realm (the JID domain) contain non-ASCII + * Show emblem for mobile, handheld, and web clients and bots (if the + other client supports it). + * Google Talk mail notifications should now work for people for whom + they inexplicably did not. (Thanks to yukam for determining the + * New XMPP and Google Talk accounts require SSL by default. + * Display kicks (and the reasons given) in chat rooms when an occupant + * Fix issues with case-sensitivity of XMPP roster and case-insensitive + * For contacts who advertise Entity Capabilities, only send rich text + markup if they support it. + * Removed support for obsoleted XEP-0022 (Message Events) and XEP-0091 + * When the GNU IDN library (libidn) is available, it is used for + normalization of Jabber IDs. When unavailable, internal routines are + used (as in previous versions). + * Topics that contain '<' followed by a non-whitespace character can now + * P2P file transfers. (Sulabh Mahajan) + * Sending text messages (address to +<countrycode><phone number>). + * Addition of MSN buddies to Yahoo accounts by adding them as + 'msn/buddy@somedomain.com' is now supported. (Sulabh Mahajan) + * Further fixes for buddy pictures, aliases, etc. + * Yahoo! and Yahoo! JAPAN are now two separate protocol plugins that share + common protocol code. You can now have the same account on both + networks. Accounts should be seamlessly migrated to the new + * Ability to set personal details for an account and for buddies in the + * Added -f command line option to tell Pidgin to ignore NetworkManager + and assume it has a valid network connection. + * Allow plugins to specify custom link types to the GtkIMHtml widget. + * The status message input box at the bottom of the buddy list expands + correctly when starting a new line of text. + * Pressing the Enter key in the message entry box of the New Status + dialog and various other dialogs now causes the cursor to move to + * Created a unified Buddy Pounce notification window for all pounces + where "Pop up a notification" is selected, which avoids having a + new dialog box every time a pounce is triggered. (Jorge Villaseñor) + * The New Account dialog is now broken into three tabs. Proxy + configuration has been moved from the Advanced tab to the new tab. + * Dragging a buddy onto a chat pops up a chat-invitation dialog. + * The nicks of the persons who leave the chatroom are italicized in the + chat's conversation history. The nicks are un-italicized when they + * Always set unseen-count and unseen-state on conversations. + * Fix a bug in 'Conversation Colors' plugin for RTL messages. + * Pressing the Left and Right arrow keys in the buddy list will expand and + collapse buddy groups or contacts. (Peter Ruibal) + * Support saving animated custom smileys as animated images or animated + custom smileys. (Andrea Piccinelli) + * Support for keyboard navigation on the status icon. (Li Yuan) + * IMG tags without 'id' attributes are turned into links to the image URL. + * Draw the user's buddy icon at the bottom of the Buddy List with rounded + corners for visual consistency with the actual icons in the Buddy List. + * When file transfers are complete, the received file name written to the + conversation window is now linked to the file. + * Fix a crash when closing a conversation tab that has unread messages + when the Message Notification plugin is loaded. + * Fix a crash when closing the New Mail dialog if an account with new + mail was previously disconnected while the dialog was open. + * Fix incorrect unread message counts for the new mail notifications. + * Do not lose unread messages with a hidden conversation window when + new IM conversations are hidden and "Close IMs immediately when the tab + * The hardware cursor is updated correctly. This will be useful + especially for users of braille terminals, screen readers etc. + * Added a TinyURL plugin, which aids copying longer URLs. + * Fixed UTF-8 compatibility problems which could cause exits or other + Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control Plugin: + * Removed mouse cursor color preferences. + * Added "Typing Notification Color" preference. + * Added "Disable Typing Notification Text" preference. + * Preferences have been reorganized into three tabs for Colors, Fonts, and + Miscellaneous categories. +version 2.5.9 (08/18/2009): + * Fix a crash via a specially crafted MSN message (CVE-2009-2694, + thanks to Core Security Technologies for discovering this and + notifying us privately before announcing it). + * Fix a crash in Bonjour, MSN, and XMPP when trying to transfer files with +version 2.5.8 (06/27/2009): + * Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy) + * Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that + have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!. + * Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected. + * Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace's web IM client. + * Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when + * Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in + * Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older. + * Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, + but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones. + * The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the + user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease + the pain of transition to the new login method. + * Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients. +version 2.5.7 (06/20/2009): + * Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should + fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh + Mahajan, Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht) + * Only display the AIM "Unable to Retrieve Buddy List" message once per + * Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you. + * When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport + network if we don't get network ID's for them. +version 2.5.6 (05/19/2009): + * Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second + boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam) + * Fix various crashes on exit. + * Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries. + This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes + on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details). + * Many security related fixes. + * Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of + * Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying + * Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes. + * Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused + by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies. + * Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of + the "Hide new IM conversations" preference. + * Fix a crash when sending very long messages. + * Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle. +version 2.5.5 (03/01/2009): + * Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id. + * Beta support for SSL connections for AIM and ICQ accounts. To + enable, check the "Use SSL" option from the Advanced tab when + editing your AIM or ICQ account. (Paul Aurich) + * Fix a memory leak in SILC. (Luke Petre) + * Fix some string handling in the SIMPLE prpl, which fixes some buddy name + handling and other issues. (Paul Aurich, Marcus Sundberg) + * Implement support for resolving DNS via the SOCKS4 proxy (SOCKS4a). + * Fix retrieval of status messages from users of ICQ 6.x, Miranda, and + other libpurple clients. (Daniel Ljungborg) + * Change client ID to match ICQ Basic 14.34.3096. This fixes publishing + of buddy icons and available messages. + * Properly publish status messages for statuses other than Available. + ICQ 6.x users can now see these status messages. (Daniel Ljungborg) + * Fix receipt of messages from the mobile client Slick. (David Jedelsky) + * Fix transfer of buddy icons, custom smileys, and files from the + latest Windows Live Messenger 9 official client. (Thomas + * Large (multi-part) messages are now correctly re-combined. + * Federated/Yahoo! buddies should now stop creating sync issues at + every signin. You may need to remove duplicates in the Address + Book. See the FAQ for more information. Thanks to Jason Lingohr + for lots of debugging and testing. + * Messages from Yahoo! buddies are no longer silently dropped. + * We now save and use the CacheKey for ABCH SOAP requests. + * Don't try to parse Personal Status Messages or Current Media if they + * Convert from ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8 when no charset is specified + on incoming messages. This should fix some issues with messages from + * Force sending the font "Segoe UI" if outgoing formatting doesn't specify + * Queue callbacks when token updates are in progress to prevent two token + update attempts from trampling each other. + * Fixed a crash on Windows when removing a buddy's alias. + * Update the Address Book when buddies' friendly names change. This + prevents seeing an outdated alias or not seeing an alias at all for + buddies who are offline when you sign in. + * Update tokens for FindMembership and ABFindAll SOAP requests. + * We no longer try to send empty messages. This could happen when a + message contained only formatting and that formatting was not supported + * Buddies on both the Allow and Block list are now automatically + removed from the Allow list. Users with this problem will now no + longer receive an ADL 241 error. The problematic buddy should now + appear on the buddy list and can be removed or unblocked as desired. + * Resources using __HOSTNAME__ substitution will now grab only the short + hostname instead of the FQDN on systems which put the FQDN in the + * No longer send a 'to' attribute on an outgoing stanza when we haven't + received one. This fixes a registration bug as described in ticket + * Tooltip windows now appear below the mouse cursor. (Kosta Arvanitis) + * Tooltip windows now disappear on keypress events. (Kosta Arvanitis) + * Tooltip windows no longer linger when scrolling the buddy list. (Kosta + * Allow rebinding keys to change the focused widget (details in the + man-page, look for GntBox::binding) +version 2.5.4 (01/12/2009): + * Fix a connection timeout with empty Gadu-Gady buddy lists. (Martin + * Don't ignore namespace information when parsing XMPP data. (Michal + * Fix a crash that occurred when retrieving certain Offline Messages + * Extended purple-url-handler to handle "gtalk" URI's. (Paul Aurich) + * Fix the hang on exit in Network Location Awareness for Windows XP + and Windows Vista. (Paul Aurich) + * Change Contact Server to temporarily fix connection problems. + (Thanks to Youness Alaoui) + * Support for XEP-0191 blocking. (Vijay Raghunathan) + * Don't put SASL PLAIN or IQ Auth passwords in debug logs. (Paul Aurich) + * Fix removal of avatars (both PEP and vCard), we weren't removing + them correctly before. (Paul Aurich) + * Fix a crash in the Add Account dialog when changing protocols under + * Redirect stderr outputs to the debug window. + * Fix rebinding actions with the arrow-keys and tab. +version 2.5.3 (12/20/2008): + * The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer prints duplicate + notifications when the same buddy is in multiple groups. (Florian + * The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer turns JID's, MSN + Passport ID's, etc. into links. (Florian Quèze) + * purple-remote now has a "getstatusmessage" command to retrieve + the text of the current status message. + * Various fixes to the nullprpl. (Paul Aurich) + * Fix a crash when accessing the roomlist for an account that's not + connected. (Paul Aurich) + * Fix a crash in purple_accounts_delete that happens when this + function is called before the buddy list is initialized. + * Fix use of av_len in perl bindings to fix some off-by-one bugs + * On ICQ, advertise the ICQ 6 typing capability. This should fix + the reports of typing notifications not working with third-party + clients. (Jaromír Karmazín) + * Many QQ fixes and improvements, including the ability to connect + using QQ2008 protocol and sending/receiving of long messages. + The recommended version to use is still QQ2005. + * Fix a crash with DNS SRV lookups. (Florian Quèze) + * Fix a crash caused by authorization requests. (Florian Quèze) + * Add support for IM images. (Tomasz Sałaciński, Adam Strzelecki) + * Gadu-Gadu now checks that UID's are valid. (Adam Strzelecki) + * Gadu-Gadu now does proper charset translations where needed. (Adam + * Fix an error with offline messages by shipping the *new* + "Microsoft Secure Server Authority" and the "Microsoft Internet + Authority" certificates. These are now always installed even when + using --with-system-ssl-certs because most systems don't ship + those intermediate certificates. + * The Games and Office media can now be set and displayed (in + addition to the previous Music media). The Media status text now + shows the album, if possible. + * Messages sent from a mobile device while you were offline are now + * Server transfers after you've been connected for a long time + should now be handled correctly. + * Many improvements to handling of "federated" buddies, such as those + * Several known crashes have been resolved. + * Many other fixes and code cleanup. + * Respect your privacy settings set using the official MySpace client. + * Add support for blocking buddies. + * Fix a bug where buddies didn't appear in their correct groups the + first time you sign into your account. + * Properly disconnect and sign out of the service when logging off. + * Support for foreground and background font colors in outgoing IMs. + * Support for background font colors in incoming IMs. + * Many other fixes and code cleanup. + * Fix insanely long idle times for Sametime 7.5 buddies by assuming + 0 idle time if the idle timestamp is in the future. (Laurent + * Fix a crash that can occur on login. (Raiko Nitzsche) + * Fix a crash when a malformed message is received. + * Don't allow connecting accounts if no server name has been + specified. (Florian Quèze) + * Fix the namespace URL we look for in PEP reply stanzas to match + the URL used in the 'get' requests (Paul Aurich) + * Resources can be set to the local machine's hostname by using + __HOSTNAME__ as the resource string. (Jonathan Sailor) + * Resources can now be left blank, causing the server to generate a + resource for us where supported. (Jonathan Sailor) + * Resources now default to no value, but "Home" is used if the + server refuses to provide a resource. + * Quit trying to get user info for MUC's. (Paul Aurich) + * Send "client-accepts-full-bind-result" attribute during SASL + login. This will fix Google Talk login failures if the user + configures the wrong domain for his/her account. + * Support new <metadata/> element to indicate no XEP-0084 User + * Fix SHA1 avatar checksum errors that occur when one of the bytes + in a checksum begins with 0. (Paul Aurich) + * Fix a problem with duplicate buddies. (Paul Aurich) + * Corrected maximum message lengths for Yahoo! + * Fix file transfers with older Yahoo protocol versions. + * Enable auto-reply, to emulate 'zaway.' (Toby Schaffer) + * Fix a crash when an account is configured to use tzc but tzc is + not installed or the configured tzc command is invalid. (Michael + * Fix a 10 second delay waiting on tzc if it is not installed or the + configured command is invalid. (Michael Terry) + * On GTK+ 2.14 and higher, we're using the gtk-tooltip-delay setting + instead of our own (hidden) tooltip_delay pref. If you had + previously changed that pref, add a line like this to + ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0 (where 500 is the timeout (in ms) you want): + gtk-tooltip-timeout = 500 + To completely disable tooltips (e.g. if you had an old + tooltip_delay of zero), add this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0: + gtk-enable-tooltips = 0 + * Moved the release notification dialog to a mini-dialog in the + * Fix a crash when closing an authorization minidialog with the X + then immediately going offline. (Paul Aurich) + * Fix a crash cleaning up custom smileys when Pidgin is closed. + * Fix adding a custom smiley using the context menu in a conversation + if no custom smilies have previously been added using the smiley + * Improved support for some message formatting in conversations. + * Allow focusing the conversation history or userlist with F6. + * Fixed the Send Button plugin to avoid duplicate buttons in a single + * Double-clicking a saved status will now activate it and close the + saved status manager, rather than edit the status. + * Allow binding meta+arrow keys for actions. + * Added default meta+erase binding for delete previous word. + * Added "Show When Offline" to buddy menus, so a plugin is no longer +version 2.5.2 (10/19/2008): + * Fixed a crash on removing a custom buddy icon on a buddy. + * Fixed a crash caused by certain self-signed SSL certificates. + * Enable a number of strong ciphers which were previously disabled + when using NSS. (Thanks to Marcus Trautwig.) + * The status selector now saves your message when changing status. + * Fix a case where a conversation window could close unexpectedly. + * A mute sounds option has been added to the preferences window to + help with discoverability. CTRL+S is no longer bound to mute. + * Added ability to change the color of visited links (using the theme + control plugin, or setting the color in ~/.gtkrc-2.0) + * Fix a crash occuring when a custom smiley is deleted and re-added and + used in an open conversation after being re-added. + * A new 'Nested Grouping' option in the 'Grouping' plugin. Group + hierarchies are defined by the '/' character in the group names. + * A bug was fixed where some key-bindings wouldn't work with some TERMs + (e.g. xterm-color, screen-linux etc.) + * Operations (such as moving to a new group) on contacts that were added + in the same session should now complete correctly, and not cause + synchronization errors at next login. + * Minor fixes to login process during a server transfer. + * Restored the "Has You" feature to the MSN protocol tooltips. + * ADL 205/214/etc errors should no longer prevent login. + * Sending and receiving custom smileys using the specification in + XEP-0231 (bits of binary) and XHTML-IM + * Only send a Ping once every hour. This prevents the account from + being disconnected from the server periodically. +version 2.5.1 (08/30/2008): + * In the Join/Part plugin, add the ability to apply the rules to + buddies. By default, joins and parts for buddies are still shown. + * Support SOCKS proxies specified in GNOME or Windows proxy settings. + * Fix some possible crashes in MSNP15. + * Enable a default SSL trust relationship for MSN servers. + * Avoid disconnecting from XMPP servers on parse errors that are + * Include some perl files that were mistakenly omitted in 2.5.0. + * Prevent use of custom smilies without "shortcuts." + * Fix a crash that could appear with AIM buddy tooltips. + * General refresh of many icons in the interface. + * Many cleanups to artwork source are now included in the distribution. + * A new "throbber" animation has been added to indicate when accounts +version 2.5.0 (08/18/2008): + * Ability to create custom smileys (currently only the MSN protocol + utilizes the feature). (Thanks to Mauro Sérgio Ferreira Brasil, + Marcus Lundblad, Jorge Villaseñor and other contributors) + * Add a configure option, --with-system-ssl-certs to allow packagers + to specify a system-wide SSL CA certificates directory. When set, + we don't install our SSL CA certs, so it's important that the + libpurple package depend on the CA certificates. + * Add SSL Certificates support to the NSS SSL plugin. (Thanks to Lou + * Fix a bug that caused the UI to not refresh and caused the client + to use 99% CPU when an XMPP account lost its connection to the + * Possibly fix a bug where some clients could get into a state + where they moved a buddy back and forth between two groups in + * /ctcp command (Vladislav Guberinić) + * Allow for auto-detection of incoming UTF-8 formatted text on + accounts which are configured to use some other encoding. + * Update MSN support to protocol 15 (Elliott Sales de Andrade, Jorge + Villaseñor, Mike Ruprecht, Carlos Silva, Ma Yuan, Daniel Ljungborg + * Personal messages are now supported. They are treated as status + * Offline IM is now supported. + * Aliasing is now supported server-side. + * Buddies are now emblemed. Bots and web clients should now be + * Update smiley set for non-faces. + * Failing to update a buddy icon when the buddy has gone offline no + * Custom smileys received in a chat no longer go to a new window. + * Processing is no longer completely frozen after the servers block a + message because it contains (what they consider) inappropriate text. + * Custom buddy icons can now be added to and removed from buddy list + entries via the buddy list entry right-click menu. + * Resize large incoming custom smileys to a maximum of 96px on either + * Offer to add new buddies into the same contact as existing buddies + in the same group if the alias given is the same. + * Minor smiley style update. + * Group and Chat buddy list entries can now be given custom buddy + * Added "Invite..." menu to chats. + * Added "View All Logs" menu in the buddylist to display a list of all IM + * Added '/msgcolor' command to change colors of different classes of + messages in a conversation. See '/help msgcolor' for details. + * Added tab-completion for commands in conversation windows. +version 2.4.3 (07/01/2008): + * Yahoo! Japan now uses UTF-8, matching the behavior of official clients + and restoring compatibility with the web messenger (Yusuke Odate) + * Setting your buddy icon once again works for Yahoo! accounts. + * Fixes in the Yahoo! protocol to prevent a double free, crashes on + aliases, and alias functionality + * Fix crashes in the bonjour protocol + * Always use UTF-8 for Yahoo! (#5973) + * Fix a crash when the given jabber id is invalid. + * Make the IRC "unknown message" debugging messages UTF-8 safe. + * Fix connecting to ICQ + * Fix a memleak when handling jabber xforms. + * Include the send button plugin in the win32 build + * Various memory leak fixes +version 2.4.2 (05/17/2008): + https://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.4.2 + * In MySpaceIM, messages from spambots are discarded (Justin Williams) + * Strip mIRC formatting codes from quit and part messages. + * IRC now displays ban lists in-channel for joined channels. + * Fixed a bug where the list of loaded plugins would get removed when + switching between different operating systems. + * Fix reception of IRC PART without a part message on Undernet + (fixes a problem with litter in the channel user list). + * IRC no longer crashes on /list on servers which erroneously omit + * Update the NetworkManager support to use D-Bus directly, instead of + libnm-glib. Hopefully it's stable now. It will now compile by + default if you have D-Bus support and NetworkManager.h. (Elliott + * MSN buddy list synchronization is now more forgiving, only asking + about buddies who have disappeared completely from the server list + and not those that have simply moved groups. + * IRC will now try to append 1-9 to your nick if it is in use, instead + of substituting the last character with 1-9 where possible. + * Bonjour buddies will be saved persistently if they're moved out of + the "Bonjour" group. (Eion Robb) + * The typing notification in the conversation history can be disabled or + customized (font, color etc.) in .gtkrc-2.0. + * Added a plugin (not installed by default) which adds a Send button + back to the conversation window. People without physical keyboards + have a hard time with the lack of the button. + * Clicking on the buddyicon in the conversation window toggles the + size of the icon between small and large. + * The settings of a chat (e.g. Handle in an XMPP chat, or Exchange in + an AIM chat) can be edited from its context menu in the buddy list. + * Add a "Present conversation window" preference to the Message + Notification plugin; the "Raise conversation window" option does not + unminimize windows or draw attention to them when they are on other + workspaces--the "Present" option should. + * Add a preference to set Escape as the keyboard shortcut for closing + the conversation window. + * Add an option in the context menu to disable smileys in the selected + text in the conversation history/log viewer. This should help people + who regularly paste code in conversations. + * Add a preference to choose the minimum size of the text input area in + * Moved the "Local alias" field in the Modify Account dialog to be below + the "User Options" heading on the "Basic" tab. + * Number of room occupants is now shown in chat tooltips where possible + * The configure script now dies on more absent dependencies. The + --disable-xxx arguments to configure can be used to bypass unneeded + dependencies. This will also cause the configure script to die if an + --enable-xxx option is used and the dependencies it requires are + * The Evolution integration plugin must now be explicitly enabled. Use + the --enable-gevolution argument to configure to enable it. + * The Contact Availability Prediction plugin must now be explicitly + enabled. Use the --enable-cap argument to configure to enable it. + * New default binding ctrl+x to open context menus. + * Menu triggers and other bindings will no longer conflict. + * Middle click pastes the internal clipboard (when mouse support is +version 2.4.1 (03/31/2008): + https://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.4.1 + * Treat AIM Unicode messages as UTF-16 rather than UCS-2; this + should have no functional effect, other than continued support + on systems which have dropped UCS-2 conversions. + * Add support for setting buddy icons on Gadu-Gadu (Tomasz Salacinski) + * Fix a crash when clearing the buddy icon for an account on XMPP + * Fix a crash during login for some ICQ accounts + * Prefer more available resources on XMPP when priorities are equal + * Fix incorrectly marking some Yahoo! contacts as blocked + * Improved handling of UTF-8 group names on ICQ (beret) + * Fix a crash when starting if you have a Zephyr account + * Increase XMPP ping timeout to 120 seconds, to prevent poor network + connections from timing out unnecessarily. + * Don't crash on XMPP forms with empty default values. + * Fix issues with CHAP authentication for SOCKS5 proxies. + * Remove a workaround for older versions gstreamer that was causing + crashes on some non-Linux systems such as HPUX + * Fix some cases of the conversation input entry area being 1 pixel high + * Fix for displaying channel & buddy names in conversation window when + * Some memory leak fixes, especially in the Text Replacement plugin + * Rectangular but non-square buddy icons have rounded corners in the buddy + * Fix compiling with Glib older than 2.6 + * Ensure existing conversations selected from the 'Send IM' dialog are + * Move the tooltip on the left of the buddylist if there's not enough room + on the right to show it. +version 2.4.0 (02/29/2008): + https://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.4.0 + * Added support for offline messages for AIM accounts (thanks to + * Fixed various problems with loss of status messages when going + or returning from idle on MySpaceIM. + * Eliminated unmaintained Howl backend implementation for the + Bonjour protocol. Avahi (or Apple's Bonjour runtime on win32) is + now required to use Bonjour. + * Partial support for viewing ICQ status notes (Collin from + * Support for /notice on IRC. + * Support for Yahoo! Messenger 7.0+ file transfer method (Thanumalayan S.) + * Support for retrieving full names and addresses from the address book + on Yahoo! Japan (Yusuke Odate) + * The AIM/ICQ server-side preference for "allow others to see me + as idle" is no longer unconditionally set to "yes" even when + your libpurple preference is "no." + * Fix SSL certificate checks for renewed certificates + * Fix the ability to set vCard buddy icons on Google Talk/XMPP + * Fixed retrieval of buddy icons and setting of server-side aliases on + Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan when using an HTTP proxy server (Gideon N. + * Fixed an MSN bug that would leave you appearing offline when transferred + * Added the ability to theme conversation name colors (red and blue) + through your GTK+ theme, and exposed those theme settings to the + Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin (Dustin Howett) + * Fixed having multiple alias edit areas in the infopane (Elliott Sales + * Save the conversation "Enable Logging" option per-contact (Moos + * Typing notifications are now shown in the conversation area + * Color is used in the buddylist to indicate status, and the conversation + window to indicate various message attributes. Look at the sample gntrc + file in the man page for details. + * The default keybinding for dump-screen is now M-D and uses a file + request dialog. M-d will properly delete-forward-word, and M-f has been + fixed to imitate readline's behavior. + * New bindings alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to help navigating between the + higlighted windows (details on the man page). + * Recently signed on (or off) buddies blink in the buddy list. + * New action 'Room List' in the action list can be used to get the list of + available chat rooms for an online account. + * The 'Grouping' plugin can be used for alternate grouping in the + buddylist. The current options are 'Group Online/Offline' and 'No + * Added the ability to block/unblock buddies - see the buddy context menu + and the menu for the buddy list. + * Fixed a bug preventing finch working on x86_64 +version 2.3.1 (12/7/2007): + https://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.3.1 + NOTE: Due to the way this release was made, it is possible that + bugs marked as fixed in 2.3.1 will not be fixed until the + * Fixed a number of MSN bugs introduced in 2.3.0, resolving problems + connecting to MSN and random local display name changes + * Going idle on MySpaceIM will no longer clear your status and message. + * Idle MySpaceIM buddies should now appear online at login. + * Fixed crashes in XMPP when discovering a client's capabilities + * Don't set the current tune title if it's NULL (XMPP/Google Talk) + * Don't allow buddies to be manually added to Bonjour + * Don't advertise IPv6 on Bonjour because we don't support it + * Compile fixes for FreeBSD and Solaris + * Update QQ client version so some accounts can connect again + * Do not allow ISON requests to stack in IRC, preventing flooding IRC + servers when temporary network outages are restored + * Plug several leaks in the perl plugin loader + * Prevent autoaccept plugin overwriting existing files +version 2.3.0 (11/24/2007): + https://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.3.0 + NOTE: Some bugs marked fixed in 2.2.1, 2.2.2 or 2.2.3 may not + have been fixed until this release (2.3.0). + * Real usernames are now shown in the system log. + * We now honor a PURPLE_DISABLE_DEPRECATED define to allow plugins to + catch deprecated functions earlier rather than later. + * Thanks to a patch from Intel, the Bonjour prpl now supports file + transfers using XEP-0096 and XEP-0065. This should enable file + transfers between libpurple clients and Gajim clients, but will not + work with iChat or Adium as they use a different file transfer + * XMPP password changes that return errors no longer cause the saved + password to be changed. + * XMPP file transfer support has been enhanced to support sending + files through a proxy when the server supports discovering a + a bytestream proxy. This should make file transfers much more + reliable. The next release will add support for manually specifying + a proxy when the server doesn't advertise one. + * If a plugin says it can't be unloaded, we now display an error and + remove the plugin from the list of saved plugins so it won't load + at the next startup. Previously, we were ignoring this case, which + * Mark dialog windows as transient for appropriate parent windows to + help window managers do the right thing (Gabriel Schulhof) + * Connection errors are now reported in mini-dialogs inside the buddy + list, rather than as buttons in the buddy list and with dialog + boxes. If several accounts are disabled when you sign on elsewhere, + you can now re-enable them all with a single click. + * Added tooltips to the Room List window to show full topics + * Added buttons in preferences to access GNOME network and browser + preferences configuration dialogs when running under GNOME + * If you alias a buddy to an alias that is already present within + a particular group, we now offer to merge the buddies into the + * A music emblem is now displayed in the buddy list for a buddy if we + know she is listening to some soothing music. + * Added a 'Move to' menu in buddy list context menu for moving buddies + to other groups as an alternative to dragging. + * Group headings are now marked via an underline instead of a + different color background. + * It is now possible to mark a chat on your buddy list as "Persistent" + so you do not leave the chat when the window or tab is closed. + * The auto-join option for chats is now listed in the "Add Chat" + dialog along with the new persistence option. + * Closing an IM no longer immediately closes your conversation. It + will now remain active for a short time so that if the conversation + resumes, the history will be retained. A preference has been added + to toggle this behavior. + * The "Smiley" menu has been moved to the top-level of the toolbar. + * Pidgin's display is now saved with the command line for session + restoration. (David Mohr) + * ICQ Birthday notifications are shown as buddy list emblems. + * Plugin actions are now available from the docklet context menu + in addition to the Tool menu of the buddy list. + * The manual page has been heavily rewritten to bring it in line + with current functionality. + * If a plugin says it can't be unloaded, we now display an error and + remove the plugin from the list of saved plugins so it won't load + at the next startup. Previously, we were ignoring this case, which + * It's possible to bind key-strokes to specific menuitems in the windows. + Read the 'Menus' section in the man-page for details. + * 'transpose-chars' operation for the entry boxes. The default key-binding + * 'yank' operation for the entry boxes. The default binding is ctrl+y. +version 2.2.2 (10/23/2007): + https://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.2 + NOTE: Due to the way this release was made, it is possible that + bugs marked as fixed in 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 will not be fixed + until the next release. + * Various bug and memory leak fixes + * Look for a default prefs.xml in the CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA directory + (e.g. c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\ + Application Data\purple\prefs.xml) on Windows, similarly to + how this is done on other platforms. +version 2.2.1 (09/29/2007): + https://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.1 + NOTE: Due to the backporting that happened for the actual + release, it is possible bugs marked as fixed in 2.2.1 + will not be fixed until 2.2.2. + * A few build issues on Solaris were fixed. + * Cancelling the password prompt for an account will no longer leave + it in an ambiguous state. (It will be disabled.) + * Fixed an erroneous size display for MSN file transfers. (galt) + * Fixed multiple memory leaks, particularly in XMPP and MySpace + * Fixed remembering proxy preferences and status scores + * Gmail notifications are better tracked + * Fixed keyboard tab reordering to move tabs one step instead of two. + * You should no longer lose proxy settings when Pidgin is restarted. + * Fixed detection of X11 when compiling + * Pressing 'Insert' in the buddylist will bring up the 'Add Buddy' +version 2.2.0 (09/13/2007): + https://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.0 + * New protocol plugin: MySpaceIM (Jeff Connelly, Google Summer of + * XMPP enhancements. See + http://www.adiumx.com/blog/2007/07/soc-xmpp-update.php (Andreas + Monitzer, Google Summer of Code for Adium) + * Certificate management. libpurple will validate certificates on + SSL-encrypted protocols (William Ehlhardt, Google Summer of Code) + * Some adjustments were made to fix sending messages when using + the MSN HTTP method. (Laszlo Pandy) + * Yahoo! Chat is fixed. + * Some AIM file transfer issues between Pidgin and other clients + have been fixed. (Kyryll A Mirnenko) + * Properly restore idle status and time for AIM and ICQ accounts + when they reconnect after being disconnected. + * Insert Horizontal Rules and Strikethrough text from toolbar. + * Option to show protocol icons in the buddy list, from the + Buddies > Show menu. (Justin Heiner) + * Ability to build with native, non-X11 GTK+ on OSX. (Anders + * Remember the 'Enable Sounds' setting for a conversation. + * Right-clicking the empty space in the formatting toolbar + allows you to toggle back to the old "ungrouped" version. + * Protocols supporting account registration via Pidgin now show + a descriptive checkbox instead of a vague "Register" button. + * Fixed a bug where a tab would be shown on single conversations + when tabs were disabled. + * Per-conversation mute and logging options (accessible from the menu). +version 2.1.1 (08/20/2007): + * Added an account action to open your inbox in the yahoo prpl. + * Added support for Unicode status messages in Yahoo. + * Server-stored aliases for Yahoo. (John Moody) + * Fixed support for Yahoo! doodling. + * Limited support for MSN Messenger contacts + * Bonjour plugin uses native Avahi instead of Howl + * Bonjour plugin supports Buddy Icons + * Only report conversation close when 'send typing notifications' + preference is turned on (Bob Rossi) + * Show current outgoing conversation formatting on the font label on + * Slim new redesign of conversation tabs to maximize number of + conversations that can fit in a window + * Tab bar is not visible when only one conversation is open. You can + drag and drop conversations from the infopane. + * Moved "Reset Formatting" toolbar button to Font menu. + * Double click on the infopane to alias buddies and set topics + * Sound support (Eric Polino) +version 2.1.0 (07/28/2007): + * Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling. + Pidgin and Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use + g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows + glib to better group our longer timers to increase power efficiency. + (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation) + * No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part + * With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved. + NOTE: Saved images are not yet displayed when loading logs. + * Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov) + * Ensure only one copy of Pidgin is running with a given configuration + directory. The net effect of this is that trying to start Pidgin a + second time will raise the buddy list. (Gabriel Schulhof) + * Undo capability in the conversation window + * The formatting toolbar has been reorganized to be more concise. + * A new status area has been added to the top of conversations to + provide additional detail about the buddy, including buddy icon, + protocol and status message. + * Show idle times in the buddy list as days, hours, seconds + * There's support for workspaces now (details in the manpage) + * There's a new custom window manager, Irssi + * Some improvements for tab-completion, tooltip and the password entries + * Some bugs regarding search results fixed + * A new DBus-script to create a docklet for finch + * Support for showing empty groups in the buddy list (Eric Polino) +version 2.0.2 (06/14/2007): + * Added a custom conversation font option to preferences + * Fixed smiley ordering in the insert smiley popup to be more intuitive + * Conversation->More menu items work for Chats as well as Buddies, + including those not on your buddy list + * newline plugin should work better with conversation colors plugin now + * Get Info on users now provides immediate feedback that something is + * Aliasing a buddy will not be interrupted by other buddy list activity + * Using the -l option to log in to a specific account works better + * Moving an ICQ buddy from one group to another no longer + re-requests authorization from that person (Rene Hausleitner) + * Added nullprpl, an example protocol plugin (Ryan Barrett) + * Fixed SOCKS5 bug which caused Jabber file receiving to fail + * Remove MSN's random "Authorization Failed" dialogs + * Fix MSN to correctly detect incorrect passwords and disable the account + * Get User Info on MSN is now more reliable & accurate + * Updated SILC protocol to support SILC Toolkit 1.1 (Pekka Riikonen) + * Fix for some QQ authentication problems + * Fix for building on FreeBSD + * Prevent "Logged in:" times for AIM buddies being ridiculously high + * Updates and fixes to Bonjour support + * Improve ICQ encoding support for some non-latin languages + * Auto account reconnecting +version 2.0.1 (05/24/2007): + * Buddy list update speedups when buddy icons are not being + displayed. (Scott Wolchok) + * Fix icons on docklet change status menu to match the status selector + * Custom smileys on MSN can be saved by right-clicking on them + * Fix a crash deleting a buddy that is in the Buddy List more than once + * Compile fixes for Solaris + * Fix GTalk formatting when there's a space before/after a */_ + * Fix Log viewer crash when the filename is not in the expected format + * Get User Info now provides immediate feedback, and is updated when the + user information is available + * Make the choose buddy icon dialog correctly list the current directory + * Fix for buddy icons disappearing + * Timestamps are always on in debug output (-d) and Debug Window now + * Don't escape html entities in Yahoo! system messages + * Fix for the choose buddy icon dialog resizing strangely as files are selected + * Receives notifications when XMPP buddies send "leaving chat" + * Fix the typing animation so it doesn't stop animating once a conversation + has gone from typing -> not typing -> typing + * Fix error messages when joing XMPP chats + * Identify the account when warning about plaintext auth over an + * Fix XMPP SASL authentication error when using Cyrus and a connect server + * Fix changing tab locations to update properly + * Turning off "Show formatting on incoming messages" now ignores + formatting in <span> tags too + * File transfer progress for transfers on MSN is now correctly displayed + * You can set/change alias of buddies/chats by double-clicking on the + conversation tabs (Ma Xuan) + * Fix IRC connection bug with dircproxy (xjoe) + * Ctrl+[shift]+tab focuses the next most active tab (William Thompson) + * Fix Open Hotmail Inbox for MSN to work more reliably + * Add a Google Talk item to the protocol list, to help users who think + we don't support Google Talk. The item acts just like "XMPP". + * Remember if the X server supports XScreenSaver, to avoid waking it + every 5 seconds. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation) + * Change our idle checking to poll only as necessary and raise the + unidle timeout from 5 seconds to 60 when using XScreenSaver. This + and the XScreenSaver change will reduce Pidgin's effect on power + consumption when running with NO_HZ. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel + * Conversation -> Save As will now use aliases. + * ALSA added as a possible sound method + * Google Talk accounts will not import buddies from your Gmail address + * Userlist in chat windows, which can be turned on or off using + * Menus in the conversation windows + * Improved tab completion support + * Ctrl+c prompts with a dialog before exiting + * Filter string in the debug window + * Notify when you leave a chat + * Work around an ncurses bug which appears when half of a multi-cell + character is covered by an upper-level window + * New plugins are shown in bold text in the plugin dialog + * Nicer HTML screendumps +version 2.0.0 (5/3/2007): + * The project has new names - libpurple for the core, Pidgin for the + GTK+ UI and Finch for the ncurses based console UI (AOL LLC) + * With the Core/UI split complete, it is now possible to build + libpurple without any UIs, creating a library upon which other + * A new ncurses-based console UI called Finch is now available + (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Google Summer of Code) + * Reorganized the source tree to split apart the code for the UI + changes and libpurple targets + * libxml2 is now required. We switched from gmarkup to libxml2 for + more correct XML parsing. + * The code dealing with buddy and account status, away messages, + away states, online/offline, etc has been completely rewritten. + Huge thanks to Christian Hammond, Dave West, Daniel Atallah and + Sadrul Habib Chowdhury. + * Your status can now be set from inside the buddy list using the + selector at the bottom of the window. + * To see messages when a buddy signs on or off, goes away, or + becomes idle, load the "Buddy State Notification" plugin + * Performance when manipulating and displaying the buddy list has + been significantly improved (Aaron Sheldon, Google Summer of Code) + * Buddy icons are now shown in tooltips (Felipe Contreras) + * Tooltips now contain additional information about a "Person" that + contains multiple online buddies + * Added a "Last Seen" field to buddy tooltips + * Contacts will auto-expand when buddies are dragged around + * If Pidgin is exited with the buddy list hidden in the docklet, it + will remain hidden when Pidgin is started again (Scott Shedden) + * Improved buddy list searching with CTRL+F + * Ability to set a buddy icon for all of your accounts at once via + the buddy list (You can still set per-account icons via the + * The space wasted by the group expanders has been eliminated and + the expander setting in .gtkrc-2.0 is no longer needed + * Authorization requests don't popup new dialogs anymore. They are + displayed at the bottom of the buddy list instead. + * New mail notifications don't popup new dialogs anymore. They are + displayed at the top of the buddy list instead. + Conversations and Chats: + * Timestamps honor the locale. To use the traditional style, + enable the "Message Timestamp Formats" plugin. The plugin + also provides options to show dates in timestamps. + * Messages from buddies in the same "Person" will automatically + use the same conversation window. + * The "Send As" menu has been replaced with a more appropriate + "Send To" menu based on "Persons" on your buddy list + * Message formatting persists between messages (Igor Belyi) + * Full message background colors are now supported + * Smooth scrolling when receiving a new message + * Screenname colors in chats now chosen intelligently + * Conversation buffer scrollback limited to avoid large memory + usage in active conversations + * Control-Shift-Tab will reverse cycle through the conversation tabs + * Many problems related to having an IM conversation and a chat open + with the same name are fixed (Andrew Hart) + * Warning dialog when closing a window with unread IM messages + * In chats right-click on names in the conversation window to + IM/Send File/Get info/ignore the user + * Added tab management options to the tab right-click menu (Sadrul + * Brand new message queueing system. Sounds are played when a + message is queued rather than when the message is dequeued + * Ability to find the last message from a user in a chat (Levi Bard + and Sadrul Habib Chowdhury) + * Formatting is preserved across messages + (There are known issues with pasting formatted text. Either use + "Paste as Plain Text", hit Ctrl-R after pasting, or use the Clear + Formatting button on the toolbar.) + * Performance while joining large chat rooms has been significantly + improved (Aaron Sheldon, Google Summer of Code) + * Bi-Directional text support improvements for GtkIMHtml (Shlomi Loubaton) + * Beautiful new default sounds (Brad Turcotte) + * Use GStreamer for playing sounds, instead of libao + * A volume control in the preferences (Casey Harkins) + * Log viewer aggregates logs from the same "Person" + * When opening the log viewer, show the most recent log by default + * Logs are now saved with the current timezone, which is displayed + * Text logs are linkified, so URLs are clickable + * The old logger now caches file offsets, so opening the log viewer + for buddies with old logs should be much faster now if you have large + log files (except the first time for a log, when the cache is built) + * Plugins are now accessed through a separate dialog from the Tools + * Newly installed plugins can now be activated without restarting + Pidgin (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury) + * Overhauled the system tray/docklet plugin (Casey Harkins) + * Text Replacement Plugin rewritten, works in real time and far more + intuitively (Benjamin Kahn) + * Entries in the text replacement plugin are now sorted + * The text replacement plugin allows non-whole-word replacement rules + * The text replacement plugin offers both case sensitive matching and + automatic case handling + * I'dle Ma'ker plugin now has an easier method to unidle accounts, a + way to idle all accounts at once, and a way to unidle all accounts + idled via the plugin (John Bailey, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury) + * The Evolution Integration plugin now supports Groupwise contacts + * Mono plugin loader (Eoin Coffey) + * Perl plugin loader has been rewritten (John Kelm, Google Summer + * New music messaging plugin (Christian Muise, Google Summer of Code) + * gaim-remote has been superceded by new DBUS bindings within libpurple + (Piotr Zielinski, Google Summer of Code) + * The purple-url-handler program has been added to provide a way to + automatically launch IM links via Pidgin or Finch. + * The functionality of the auto-reconnect plugin has been + moved into the core, and the plugin itself has been removed. + * 'Highlight when nick said' option added to Message Notification + * The system tray icon is now properly transparent (Dan Winship) + * New Log Reader plugin that can read and display logs from Adium, + MSN Messenger, and Trillian in the log viewer + * New Contact Availability plugin that attempts to predict the + times when people in your buddylist will most likely respond + to you, based on times in the past when they have responded + (Geoffrey Foster, Google Summer of Code) + * A few new plugins: Autoaccept, Autoreply, Buddy Notes, New Line, + Offline Message Emulation, Conversation Colors and Markerline + * Custom smiley receiving support (Irving Cordova & Francesco Fracassi) + * Added support for sending (with the /nudge command) and receiving + "nudges" (Julien Cegarra, Martin Bayard) + * Added an account action to open your Hotmail inbox from MSN + * Bi-directional text is correctly handled now (Shlomi Loubaton) + * Stealth Settings have been implemented + * Doodle is now supported (Andrew Dieffenbach, Google Summer of Code) + * Buddies' requests to add you to their lists now prompt for + * Account option to ignore chat and conference invitations (Peter + * Added a /list command to bring up the room list (Peter Lawler) + * ICQ file transfer support with newer ICQ clients (Jonathan Clark, + * Many overall improvements to AIM and ICQ file transfers (Jonathan + Clark, Google Summer of Code) + * Support for pausing and resuming AIM and ICQ file transfers + * Ability to set ICQ "require authorization" and "web aware" + setting (Ettore Simone) + * ICQ encoding fix for offline buddies (Ilya Konstantinov) + * SSL support for IRC connections (Daniel Atallah) + * Show an error message when temporarily unable to join an IRC + channel or change your nick + * Added /nickserv, /memoserv, /chanserv and /operserv + commands (Joao Luís Marques Pinto) + * Added CTCP VERSION via /version (Andrej Krivulčík) + * Added /whowas command (achris) + * Support for SRV lookups + * Support for buddy icons + * Jabber User Directory searching + * Whiteboard support (Pekka Riikonen) + * Sending/receiving images in IMs (Pekka Riikonen) + * Cipher and HMAC selection support (Pekka Riikonen) + * Buddy Icon support (Pekka Riikonen) + Other Protocol Changes: + * Bonjour (Rendezvous) protocol support (Juanjo Molinero Horno, Google + * Updated Gadu-Gadu protocol support (Bartosz Oler, Google Summer of + Code). This requires the libgadu library. See + https://pidgin.im/faq.php#libgadu for more information. + * SIP/SIMPLE support (Thomas Butter, Google Summer of Code) + * Sametime protocol support + Requires the meanwhile library: http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net + * QQ protocol support (Mark Huetsch, Google Summer of Code, and the + developers of the OpenQ project) + * Removed the Napster and TOC protocols plugins + Other Noteworthy Changes: + * NAT traversal support via UPnP (Adam J. Warrington, Google Summer of + * NAT traversal support via NAT-PMP (Evan Schoenberg and R. Tyler Ballance) + * The modify account dialog now contains two tabs, which should display + better at lower resolutions (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury) + * New "find buddy" results dialog (Alex Converse) + * People using input methods can now use Enter again + * Mouse-over hyperlink coloring is now themeable + * Buddy Pounces now have a proper management window. (Kevin Stange) + * Buddy icons maintain aspect ratio when resized + * The last used directory is remembered for opening or saving files and + * Add an SVG version of our desktop icon, pidgin.svg (John Oyler) + * If a given protocol doesn't support privacy, we now handle blocking + in the core. (Jean-Yves Lefort) + * Smiley themes can now include spaces in the smiley definitions. + The spaces (and now backslashes) must be backslash-escaped. + (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury) + * New e-mail notices are now grouped into one dialog. + (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Chris Stafford) + * "Open" in the File Transfer window integrates with GNOME, KDE, and + Windows and falls back to the browser in other environments. + * On Mac OS X, the keyboard/mouse idle time pref now uses system idle + time instead of X11 idle time (Michael Culbertson) + * Autocomplete in the buddy pounce dialog (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury) + * Non-blocking socket I/O is used in most protocol plugins + * All-new icons all over the place (Hylke Bons) + * Preferences have been substantially reorganized and cleaned up + * Smiley theme descriptions are now shown correctly for the highlighted + smiley theme (Levi Bard) + * All Buddy List preferences have been moved to the Buddies menu of + * Proxy settings will be taken from Gnome if it is running. These may + still be overridden on a per-account basis. + * Removed "Dim idle buddies;" behavior is now always enabled + * Removed keyboard shortcut preferences for ctrl-B/I/U; enabled by + default, but won't interfere with bindings set by the GTK theme + * Removed keyboard shortcuts preferences for ctrl-# to insert a smiley; + behavior removed from Pidgin + * Removed "Enter" vs. "Ctrl-Enter" to send; "Enter" sends by default, + but it is now possible to change this binding in your GTK theme + * Removed "Show multi-colored screennames in chats;" behavior is now + always enabled and screenname colors automatically adjust themselves + to compensate for background color. + * Removed "Raise Buddy List Window on Events" and the related behavior + * Removed "Display remote nicknames if no alias is set" + * Removed "Show idle times" and "Show warning levels" on the buddy + list; behavior is now always enabled + * Removed "Auto-expand contacts;" contacts expand only when dragging + buddies around the buddy list + * Removed conversation and buddy list buttons and related preferences + * Removed "Raise conversation window" preferences; moved feature to + * Removed "Show alias in tabs/titles;" behavior is now always enabled + * Removed "Show formatting toolbars;" the setting in conversations' + "Options" menu now affects the global preference + * Removed "Show timestamps;" behavior is now enabled, but is overridden + by the timestamp plugin + * Removed all protocol options pages + * Removed "Escape closes windows;" default key binding is now Ctrl-W + * Removed "Log when buddies sign on/sign off/become idle/become + un-idle/go away/come back" and "Log your own actions;" all of these + will be logged when the system log is enabled + * Removed the separate ignore formatting preferences; behavior has been + consolidated into a single preference +version 1.5.0 (8/11/2005): + * Ability to set IRC quit message (Lalo Martins) + * OSCAR file transfers now work for 2 users behind the same NAT + * Yahoo! buddy requests to add you to their buddy list now prompt for + * Added a /clear command for conversations/chats + * Fixed ICQ encoding for messages with offline ICQ users + (Ilya Konstantinov, SF Bug #1179452) + * Default Yahoo! chat roomlist locale to 'us' +version 1.4.0 (7/7/2005): + * Fix system log start times for some protocols + * SILC compiles with newer SILC toolkit versions (Pekka Riikonen) + * Fixed a bug where buddy icon cache files were left in the icon + cache directory after they were no longer in use. + * Attempt to detect the file type of a buddy icon when saving. + * Additional Yahoo! boot protection (Peter Lawler) + * A few Yahoo! memory leaks plugged (Peter Lawler) + * Fixed handling of the new Yahoo! profile page. (Joshua Honeycutt, + * Fixed localized Yahoo! room lists. Please refer to the Yahoo! + section of the Gaim FAQ for details. (Peter Lawler) + * Enabled sending files to ICQ users using ICQ 5.02 and newer +version 1.3.1 (6/9/2005): + * The file transfer details section now also displays the full path to + the local file sent/received. + * Yahoo! has the following new "/" commands: /join, /buzz + * Fix Yahoo! privacy bug + * Fix Jabber Get Info crash on busted servers + * Updated our gaim.desktop file, thanks to all our terrific translators + for sending in translations of the changes + * Improvements to how Gaim handles new message notification + * Fix Jabber registration on XMPP servers (including jabber.org) +version 1.3.0 (5/10/2005): + * Removed parts of the font selection dialog that were not respected + * Fix being invited to a multi user chat on MSN + * Multiple SILC accounts should work now (Pekka Riikonen) + * Fix times on jabber chat backlogs + * Fix gevolution plugin to compile with e-d-s 1.0 or 1.2 + * Fix gevolution plugin to remember buddy name when someone added you + * Formatting in jabber chats works + * Fix to prevent MSN disconnecting if you change status while connecting + * Fixes for two remotely exploitable crash bugs. See + http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/ for more information. + * Change to correctly handle adding jabber buddies on ejabberd servers +version 1.2.1 (4/3/2005): + * URL escaping now works with UTF-8 text. This may break some old log + * Revert to XOR auth for ICQ as the md5 is not fully functional + * Fix bug with going away while in a jabber chat + * MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras) + * Escape things properly in IRC + * Docklet fixes: fix the "1 pixel-wide icon" bug, fix problems with Gaim + crashing when the tray manager dies, and work correctly with multi-headed + displays where the tray isn't on the primary screen (Robert McQueen) +version 1.2.0 (3/17/2005): + * Yahoo file receiving and buddy icon receiving work again. + * Limit animated buddy icon frame rates to 10 frames per second + * Fix a bug where portions of your account configuration would + fail to be read correctly if you set a proxy user name or + password containing invalid XML characters such as < and > + * Yahoo! privacy improvements (Bleeter) + * Fix receiving Jabber formatting (broken in 1.1.3) +version 1.1.4 (2/24/2005): + * Fixed a bug where Yahoo! would lose messages (and any other packet + * Correctly show the time when incoming Gadu-Gadu messages were sent + (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger) + * Fixed crashes with glib 2.6 + * Fixed MSN crash when conversations time out after the conversation + * Fixed an html parsing bug, CAN-2005-0208 +version 1.1.3 (2/17/2005): + * CHAP authentication support for SOCKS5 proxies (Malcolm Smith) + * ICQ offline messages are sent using your specified character + set instead of Unicode (Magnus Hult) + * MSN HTTP method works with proxies using authentication (Bastien Durel) + * Really fix the bug where buddies show as logged in for 49 thousand days + * Buddy pounces containing '&' are saved correctly + * Improved MSN error handling when the servers are unavailable + * Fix "Find" in the log viewer so that it finds in all logs + * Smileys not appearing at the end of lines has been fixed + * Closing conversation windows no longer cancels active file transfers on +version 1.1.2 (1/20/2005): + * MSN 'HTTP Method' fixed (Felipe Contreras) + * Better handling of MSN's Individuals group and buddy status updates + * Fix a crash inviting MSN user to a chat when they're already there + * AIM SecurID login support + * Fix configuration of Jabber chat rooms on some servers + * More MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras) + * Fix queue messages to Docklet when not globally away (Robert McQueen) + * The Autopackage now builds both the mozilla-nss and the gnutls + ssl plugins, and requires at least one of those libraries. +version 1.1.1 (12/28/2004): + * Allow SILC authentication via public key if your key is password + protected (Michele Baldessari) + * More MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras) + * Drag-and-drop to conversation window file transfers work again + * Disable the delete button on pounces that aren't saved yet anyway +version 1.1.0 (12/02/2004): + * Binary relocable. Gaim will find its files even if it's installed + in a location other than the --prefix it was ./configured with. + Pass --disable-binreloc to ./configure to disable. + * IRC now has fallback encodings, and tries harder to display + something useful during an encoding error. + * New MSN protocol icon (Felipe Contreras) + * Fix some leaks (Miah Gregory, Felipe Contreras) + * Fix crashes when removing buddies in certain situations (Andrew Hart) + * Eliminate MSN switchboard errors (Felipe Contreras) + * Fix MSN buddy icon synchronization (Felipe Contreras) + * Correctly display file transfer dialogs for filenames containing &, < or > + * Correctly display MSN authorization dialogs for friendly names containing + * Properly align the right-click docklet menu with the docklet icon in + * Fix a crash if the MSN buddy list is not available + * Fix a bug in the request api (Gary Kramlich) +version 1.0.3 (11/11/2004): + * Jabber authentication fixes (Michael Plump) + * Yahoo buddy idle reporting is more accurate (Evan Schoenberg) + * "Allow All" privacy setting works on Yahoo (Peter Lawler) + * Fix a crash when dragging a buddy to the conversation entry area + * Fix a crash removing chats from the buddy list + * Correctly display buddy pounces for aliases with &, < or > in them + * Correctly follow the per-conversation logging option +version 1.0.2 (10/19/2004): + * MSN file transfers work on big endian machines (Jean-Francois Roy and + * Fixed the MSN signon crash with Miranda users in the buddy list + * Fixed sending messages to MSN Web Messenger users (Damien Ayers) + * Fixed some memory leaks in the MSN plugin (Evan Schoenberg) + * Fixed a crash viewing certain MSN user profiles (Evan Schoenberg) + * Fixed a crash sending a file on MSN when the file is unreadable + * Fixed a crash deleting accounts (Andrew Hart) + * Fixed a crash inviting to chats (Andrew Hart) + * Fixed a bug in Yahoo privacy handling (Peter Lawler) + * Fixed a crash trying to join a chat from the docklet when not signed in + to a chat-capable account (Daniel Atallah) +version 1.0.1 (10/07/2004): + * Use the GNOME default browser when opening links if you're running GNOME + * Added support for multiple addressbooks in the gevolution plugin + * Send-As menu duplicates less work (Dave West) + * Can now see your own MSN buddy icon (Felipe Contreras) + * Jabber roomlist fetches work again + * Close buttons on tabs in existing conversations correctly reflect the + "show close buttons on tabs" preference (Nathan Fredrickson) + * Fix to make the get_signon(buddy) perl plugin function work (Gregory C. + * Fixed crashes when reloading the gevolution plugin (Henry Jen) + * Fixed some memory leaks in the gevolution plugin. + * Wrap at character boundaries if there is not enough space for a full word + * 64 bit compile warning fixes +version 1.0.0 (09/17/2004): + * Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Invite dialog (Stu Tomlinson) + * Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Pounce dialog (Stu Tomlinson) + * View Chat log available from the interface (Daniel Atallah) + * Ability to receive offline messages in character encodings + other than ASCII (thanks to Nick Sukharev) + * File transfer status messages printed to conversation + * Display file transfer messages when someone sends you a file + * Handle MSN buddy lists more sanely (Felipe Contreras) + * Zephyr can use tzc to run from behind a firewall (Arun A Tharuvai) + * Work around window manager stupidity with new dialog windows (Dave West) + * Compile with gtk 2.5.x (Gary Kramlich) + * Escape invalid characters in log names (Daniel Atallah) + * Fix for clicking add in an msn chat with 2 or more people in your buddy +version 0.82.1 (08/27/2004): + * Fix a crash when changing the preference for how to display buttons + on conversation windows + * Remove a stray printf() when beginning new conversations and logging +version 0.82 (08/26/2004): + * Ability to set available messages for AIM + (Tools->Account Actions->Set Available Message...) + * Ability to specify a custom character set for messages sent to ICQ + users and messages received from ICQ users + * Ability to edit your current away message (Rhett Robinson) + * Topics in the conversation window (not the topic field at the + top) with URLs will now appear as links (Stu Tomlinson) + * File transfers appear in the file transfer window when they + are initiated rather than when they begin transferring (Dave West) + * Instead of toggling slash commands on/off, you can now toggle + passing through unknown slash commands on/off. + * Joining a Jabber chat no longer causes a crash (Stu Tomlinson) + * Selecting a buddy icon for a brand new account no longer + * Better file transfer error messages (Dave West) + * Remotely canceled file transfers in MSN are now noticed, so that we + don't accidentally cancel the file transfer and crash Gaim + * Protocols that don't support joining chat rooms by name no longer + allow chat rooms to be added to the buddy list (Felipe Contreras) + * Delayed messages and system messages no longer cause + sound events to be triggered (Nathan Fredrickson) + * The chat invite button has a correct label (Stu Tomlinson) + * The system log should leak fewer file descriptors (Ka-Hing Cheung) + * Buddy list tooltips display in more appropriate positions when + using multiple monitors (Dave West) + * Better parsing of URLs containing special characters + * All users are shown when joining a Yahoo! conference (Bleeter Yaluser) + * You now leave all Yahoo! conferences when you log out of Yahoo! + * Buddy Icon updating bug fixed (Felipe Contreras) +version 0.81 (08/05/2004): + * The autorecon plugin will somewhat remember state information(Yosef + * Visual display of ops/voice/halfops/so on in Chats (Stu Tomlinson) + * Tab completion of slash commands in Chats (Stu Tomlinson) + * gaim-remote can now manipulate status (István Váradi) + * The text messages of Yahoo Audibles are now displayed, although + the audio and graphics are not. + * Yahoo! away messages can be 255 characters long now + * Gadu-Gadu should connect again (Andrew Wellington) + * Novell fixes (Mike Stoddard of Novell): + * Fixed reconnect crash + * Fixed duplicate root folder bug + * Fixed bug with folder ordering (on a first time login + folders were being added in reverse order). + * Use ISO date format for the system log (Eduardo Pérez) + * Long buddy lists with irc should cause flooding disconnects less + * Better smiley substitution + * Fix a crash related to auto-expanding contacts at the bottom of + * Fix a crash on Solaris when changing or viewing information for + your AIM account (Format Screen Name, Change Email Address, etc.) + * HTML in OSCAR buddy comments is now escaped (and not rendered) + * Fix a crash when dragging a screen name to a conversation window + * User-requested new conversation windows are now always given focus + * Pasting HTML into Gaim from certain sources no longer results in + the spaces between some words being removed + * The alias of a contact is now displayed in more places when the + alias of a buddy is not set + * .gaimrc is no longer imported + * Prevent a crash if you sign off and try to dequeue messages from + the away dialog (Kevin Stange) + * Prevent a possible crash if gaim_gtkconv_write_conv is called + with who as NULL (Kevin Stange) + * Prevent (null) or an empty string from being logged as the sender's + name if the sender no longer has an alias because the account is + signed off (Kevin Stange) + * The auto-reconnect plugin will no longer attempt to reconnect an + MSN account if you were disconnected because you signed on from + another location (Stu Tomlinson) + * On Solaris, chatting in IRC using the UTF-8 charset no longer gives + a "conversion failed" error for every message (Arvind Samptur) + * ICQ offline messages should have the correct timestamp (Dave West) +version 0.80 (07/15/2004): + * Ability to send files from the conversation window (Daniel Atallah) + * Drag a file into the buddy list or a conversation to send it to that + * Yet more new commands and features for SILC (Stu Tomlinson) + * Gaim uses the new file chooser when compiled for GTK+ 2.4 + * Support for the Epiphany web browser (Leonardo Serra) + * Status messages in Gadu-Gadu (Andrew (proton) Wellington) + * Parentheses are now displayed around the title and tabs of + conversations from offline accounts or parted chats. + * Zephyr typing notification (Arun A Tharuvai) + * Account dialog's columns are resizable (Eduardo Pérez) + * The firefox browser option now works with firefox 0.9 + * Buddy icons in conversations no longer depend on the + * Fix for the bug where some buddies seemed logged in 4 + thousand some odd days (Alan Ford) +version 0.79 (06/24/2004): + * Display name changes are now shown in the conversation windows. + * Get Info on Yahoo! now works for nonenglish profiles. + * General "Get Info" improvements on Yahoo! and MSN (Ambrose Li) + * Yahoo! Japan support. Click More Options and check Yahoo Japan + in the account editor, to use your Yahoo! Japan account + * Gtk themes can now theme the Gaim buddy list independently of + other things (Stu Tomlinson) + * Show timestamps now has a per-conversation option in addition + to the global one, bringing it in line with the other conver- + sation options (Stu Tomlinson) + * Added MSN buddy icons (Felipe Contreras) + * Added MSN file transfer (Felipe Contreras) + * MSN's idle state now actually sets a buddy idle + * Buddy pounce defaults are now more sane, and apply to the state the + buddy is currently in. For example, if the buddy is idle, set + "Return from idle" by default. The last action(s) used are the + defaults for the next pounce + * Yahoo buddy icon support + * Selected buddy icons will automatically convert to the appropriate + format for the protocol. (GTK 2.2 and higher only) + * Dragging an image file into the Modify Account dialog will set that + * Development headers for compiling third-party plugins are now + installed. (Stu Tomlinson) + * Headers for gaim-remote now reside in gaim/ instead of + * Basic YCHT support, which allows joining Yahoo! Chats when + logged in using the web messenger method + * Fixed Yahoo! authentication problems. (Cerulean Studios) + * Non-looping animated icons no longer cause Gaim to freeze + * Flashing windows should work again for unix in window managers that + support the URGENT hint (Etan Reisner) + * Better handling of character sets in RTF for Novell (Mike Stoddard of + * Contact list sync problems in Novell fixed (Mike Stoddard of Novell) + * Fixed a crash in SILC that sometimes happened when resolving + the buddy list (Pekka Riikonen) + * Parallel compiles of the perl plugin should work better + * The disconnected UI op was called twice on connection errors. Now + it is only called once. (Evan Schoenberg) + * Dragging into conversation windows works better + * Protocol-specific settings for accounts were being removed whenever + the account was modified. Now they're only removed when the protocol + type changes, as it should be. + * Zephyr bug fixes and memory leak plugs (Arun A Tharuvai) + * Rewrite of MSN buddylist support, which fixed a known syncronization + bug and some others (Felipe Contreras) +version 0.78 (05/30/2004): + * Support for the SILC protocol (http://www.silcnet.org/) + * Option to suppress disconnect notification when using + the autoreconnect plugin (Christopher (siege) O'Brien) + * Added support for dragging buddies from the buddy list into the + Add Buddy Pounce dialog + * Pounce notification now includes time (Mike Lundy) + * The history plugin now shows history for chats in addition to IMs + * Menu item to view conversation logs (Tom Samstag) + * Conversation and chat sizes automatically saved (Stu Tomlinson) + * Added support for Novell privacy settings (Mike Stoddard of Novell) + * Added ability to initiate multi-user conferences (chats) in Novell + (Mike Stoddard of Novell) + * Find and Save buttons on the debug window (Stu Tomlinson) + * Plugin Actions menu (Christopher (siege) O'Brien) + * Plugins can now add entries to the right-click menu of a group or chat + (Stu Tomlinson and Christopher (siege) O'Brien) + * Hyperlink colors are now themeable via your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file + * Compiles again with gcc 2.96 (Ignacio J. Elia) + * Gtk2.0 compatibility fixes (Tim Ringenbach) + * Many documentation updates (Jonathan Champ, Gary Kramlich, + Stu Tomlinson, and Kevin Stange) + * Yahoo works on 64 bit machines (Gary Kramlich) + * Zephyr works on 64 bit machines (Arun A Tharuvai) + * Novell 64bit fixes, better error messages, and buddy list sync fixes + (Mike Stoddard of Novell) + * Novell protocol works on big endian machines (Novell) + * Massive rewrite of MSN support, which should fix a number of issues + and make errors easier to interpret (Felipe Contreras) + * Fixed a privacy-related bug in MSN that affected blocking/permitting, + which was due to case-sensitive string comparisons (Gudmundur + * Fixed an MSN HTTP method bug where MSN would queue data indefinitely. + * All known MSN formatting bugs were fixed. + * Overly long messages and paging cell phones in MSN no longer cause + disconnects (Felipe Contreras) + * Several bug fixes for MSN's MSNSLP and MSNObject support (Finlay + * ALT-F works correctly in the System Log Viewer (Stu Tomlinson) + * New tabs should scroll correctly again (Tim Ringenbach) + * Dialogs opened from a conversation window are now closed when + the conversation window is closed, preventing a crash (Kevin Stange) + * Copy/paste encoding fixes (Joe Marcus Clarke) + * IRC disconnect crash fix (Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha) + * Ampersands in links should work correctly (Tim Ringenbach) + * DirectIM and IM Image support for AIM are greatly improved + * Gadu-Gadu updates (Andrew Wellington) + * Print Gadu-Gadu messages to the debug window instead of the console + * Updated and standardized blist signals (Gary Kramlich) + * Made the recieve-*-msg signals match the sending ones (Stu Tomlinson) + * The idle time for the buddy-idle and buddy-unidle signals should + * Added "Conversation placement - By conversation count" + * Added a "none" smiley theme to replace the "Show graphical + * Replace default formatting preferences with a dialog to set a + default formatting in a WYSIWYG manner. + * Removed "Show logins in window," default to yes + * Removed "Send URLs as links," default to yes (in protocols that + * Removed "Show URLs as links," default to yes + * Removed New window height & width and Entry field height for Chats & + IMs, sizes are now saved automatically + * Removed "Tab-complete nicks" default to yes + * Removed "Old-style tab completion", no longer supported + * Removed "Sending message removes away status", default to no + * Removed "Show numbers in groups", default to yes + * Removed "Icons on tabs", default to yes + * Removed "Sounds when you log in", default to no + * Removed "Seconds before resending autoresponse", default to 600 + * Removed "Send autoresponse in active conversations", default to no + * Removed "Show people joining in window", default to yes + * Removed "Show people leaving in window", default to yes +version 0.77 (04/22/2004): + * The System Log returns (Ka-Hing Cheung) + * Added a conversation-drag-ended signal (Etan Reisner) + * Reorganized and cleaned up the MSN protocol plugin (Felipe Contreras) + * Added the -c option to specify location of the .gaim directory, + removed the outdated -f option that no longer had any effect (Daniel + * Novell GroupWise protocol support added (Novell) + * WYSIWYG improvements (Tim Ringenbach) + * WYSIWYG editing for user info (Jon Oberheide) + * Rich-text copy and paste + * Plugins can now add menu items to the buddy context menu + * Plugins can now add preferences (Gary Kramlich) + * The TOC protocol is no longer built by default. The plugin is not + being properly tested and is no longer officially supported. + * Bumped up the plugin API version number, and added version numbers + for loader plugins and protocol plugins. Authors will want to + update their plugins, and possibly use GAIM_PLUGIN_API_VERSION, + GAIM_PRPL_API_VERSION, and GAIM_LOADER_API_VERSION constants. + * Zephyr error reporting works (Arun A. Tharuvai) + * Zephyr deals with non-utf8 characters (Arun A. Tharuvai) + * Formatting in the Log viewer is fixed (Kevin Stange) + * Save Conversation works again (Kevin Stange) + * The Clear button in privacy works (Robert Mibus) + * MSN error reporting works again (Stu Tomlinson) + * MSN e-mail notifications should no longer cause Gaim to crash + * Fixed an infinite loop bug that would sometimes cause MSN to lock + up (Nickolai Zeldovich) + * All away messages should now show up in tooltips + * Removing zephyr buddies no longer crashes (Arun A. Tharuvai) +version 0.76 (04/01/2004): + * WYSIWYG text input (with much help from Gary Kramlich and Kevin + * Ability to be invisible on AIM + * Chatroom list support (Tim Ringenbach) + * Added auto-completion for screen names to the New Instant Message and + * Non-ascii character support in AIM chats (Uli Luckas and Marco Ziech) + * Vastly improved browser opening, with tab support! (Nathan + * Added support for connecting to MSN using the port 80 method. + * Support for Mozilla Firefox (Chris Friesen and Nathan Fredrickson) + * Added protocol-specific preferences (Gary Kramlich) + * Local IP address information can be changed in Preferences + * Improved local IP address detection (Tim Ringenbach) + * Offline accounts in account drop-down lists are now greyed (Etan + * Improved accessibility support for screen readers and other + accessibility tools (Marc Mulcahy) + * Improved accessibility in conversation windows (Nathan Fredrickson) + * Keyboard access to context menus via Shift+F10 (Marc Mulcahy) + * Core/UI split event loop code. (Scott Lamb) + * Added improvements to the multi-field request code, including + required fields and account fields. + * Moved more dialogs to the request API for interface consistency + (Send Message, Get User Info, and Insert Link dialogs) + * IRC file transfer (Tim Ringenbach) + * Added a hidden preference for disabling buddy list tooltips or + changing the pop-up delay in prefs.xml. + * Moved translation news to po/ChangeLog + * Changes in AIM/ICQ server-side buddy lists take + precedence over the local buddy list + * Significant work on the Zephyr plugin (Arun A. Tharuvai) + * You can now use :/ as a smiley safely (Nathan Owens) + * Various buffer overflow fixes (Stefan Esser) + * Tabs now stay green when they are supposed to (Etan Reisner) + * Fixed a bug where only the first user in a chat room list was removed + sometimes when trying to remove a group of users (Tim Ringenbach) + * Clearing an AIM buddy icon actually removes it from the server, + icons changes in the account editor do not take effect if the + cancel button is used (Stu Tomlinson) + * Improved chat parting logic (Tim Ringenbach) + * Yet Another IRC channel user duplication bugfix (Tim Ringenbach) + * Deleting an account while modifying it will no longer crash gaim. + * Only one account preference window will now appear per account when + * Aliases are now shown alongside the screen name in the message + queue window. (Kevin Stange). + * TCL Plugin API changed + * The mobile icon on MSN users is now removed when the person disables + mobile paging (Stu Tomlinson) + * Removing invalid buddies in MSN with a space in their name no longer + causes a disconnect (Stu Tomlinson) + * Multiple MSN chats should now work (Robert Mibus) + * Added new MSN error codes and fixed an incorrect one (Stu Tomlinson) + * Incoming colors are now processed correctly in MSN. + * Conversation placement by account now works correctly with both + chats and IMs, and takes the Combine Chats and IMs option into + * Minor tweaks to the list box in the multi-field request dialogs + so they work without a label and scrollbar (Pekka Riikonen) + * Hitting enter in a multi-field request dialog when a textfield has + the focus no longer ignores the changed text in the textfield + * The Disconnect dialog no longer raises and gains focus each time + a disconnected account is added (Ka-Hing Cheung) + * Gadu-Gadu might actually connect again (Ignacy Gawedzki) + * Buddy pounces for an account are removed when the account is + deleted (Gary Kramlich) + * Various bug and memory leak fixes (Gary Kramlich) + * Assorted SSL crashfixes + * --enable-debug no longer breaks compilation when using gtk 2.4, + which also broke garnome. + * Tooltips shouldn't crash now (Daniel Atallah) +version 0.75 (01/09/2004): + * New Yahoo! auth method + * Yahoo! file transfer (Tim Ringenbach) + * Yahoo! chat joining fixes (Tim Ringenbach) + * Persons can auto-expand when hovering your mouse over it + * Improved i18n support for MSN email notification (Felipe Contreras) + * Jabber SASL PLAIN support + * Improved Jabber MUC (Chat) support + * Fixed an MSN login bug some people likely experienced (Felipe + * Touch-up various dialogs to follow the Gnome Human Interface + Guidelines more closely (Steven Garrity, Nathan Fredrickson, and + * Works better with all-black gtk themes (Etan Reisner) + * Mozilla Firebird support (Chris (darth_sebulba04)) +version 0.74 (11/25/2003): + * Sort-by-size log sorting fix + * Log directory umask fix for users of gaim-remote + * Fix Jabber room creation on MUC servers. +version 0.73 (11/21/2003): + * New Logging format and code: + * fixes i18n issues with logs + * compatible with old logs + * hopefully fixes segfault in viewing logs + * New disconnected account dialog (Thanks, Daniel Atallah) + * Fixes several Jabber bugs + * Fixes the bug where some dialogs would crash when spell checking was + enabled. Closes #827930. + * Fixed unblocking of users in MSN (Robert Mibus) + * Fixes outgoing mobile pages on MSN. + * The border on the close buttons on inactive tabs are no longer shown, + thanks to a fix used by Galeon. + * Compatible with autoconf 2.58. + * Cleaned up gtkspell-related code (Robert McQueen) + * Changed the parameters for the received-chat-msg signal. + * Added a Release Notification plugin +version 0.72 (10/31/2003): + * Added a search feature to conversations. + * Added an option to remove the formatting toolbar, both globally and + on a per-window basis (Nathan Fredrickson) + * Added a drop shadow to the buddy list tooltip + * Fixed the ICQ login crash + * Fixed a crash in the Add Chat dialog when selecting an + account that doesn't support chats. Closes bug #821606. + * Fixed a bug where new MSN accounts without buddies added wouldn't + * Fixed a crash when deleting an account that has IMs or chats open. + * Smileys have background colors + * If SSL is not enabled, MSN will load, but error on connect. + * Disable Jabber SASL auth until the standard stabilizes +version 0.71 (10/09/2003): + * The right-click menu for e-mail links now presents a "Copy E-Mail + * Fix sort by idle to behave as it did pre-contact support (David + * Display AIM away messages in the tooltip for buddies when + * Support for Buddy Comments for AIM and ICQ buddies + * Window icons are now set as buddy icons or status icons + * Get User Info in MSN and Yahoo now return an error indicating that + the information doesn't exist if the profile is empty (parts by + * Added startup notification support for window managers that support it + * The protocol icon for an account in the accounts window will now + "pulse" when signing the account on. + * Zephyr formatting fixes (Arun A. Tharuvai) + * Zephyr can connect to chats (Karsten Huneycutt) + * SSL support can now be provided by third party plugins. + * Multiple copies of gaim installed at different locations no + longer attempt to load the same, possibly incompatible plugins + * Implemented another new Yahoo! authentication method + * Fixed a bug displaying Chinese MSN messages (Ambrose C. LI). + * Additional fixes and checks for the perl build process (Sean Burke). + * Massive core/UI splitting. + * Re-write of Jabber protocol plugin + * Conversation API changes. + * Some plugins must be updated due to code variable changes, + function name changes, and change of behavior for certain +version 0.70 (09/28/2003): + * Implemented Yahoo's new authentication method (Cerulean Studios) + * Protocol plugins that have plugin dependencies now load correctly. + * Perl installs where it's told to a bit more correctly. + * Robert "Robot101" McQueen cleaned and core/UI split IM +version 0.69 (09/24/2003): + * Added Contact (aka Person, aka Meta-Contact, aka Buddy Merging, etc) + * Added animated smiley support (Ka-Hing Cheung) + * Added SSL support, compatible with GNUTLS and Mozilla NSS. + * Added support for gettext 0.12.x. + * Updated MSN support to the MSN Protocol version 9. + * Jabber now supports SSL + * Yahoo now shows people using the java chat client (Tim Ringenbach) + * Yahoo chat and conference (Tim Ringenbach) + * Yahoo ignore support (Jesse Farmer (farmerje)) + * Yahoo idle times displayed, long buddy lists work, sms users, + and other improvements (Tim Ringenbach) + * The accounts window now shows offline accounts as greyed out, and + online accounts as colored. + * Fixed the text replacement plugin. + * Fixed all known signal problems in perl. + * The right-click menu for conversation tabs now shows the tab icon + and status, if tab icons are enabled. (Jesse Farmer) +version 0.68 (09/01/2003): + * Removed the old event system and replaced it with a much better + * Added plugin dependency support. + * Rewrote the Perl plugin. All old scripts will break, but it offers + a much better API for new scripts. + * Yahoo color support (Tim Ringenbach (marv_sf)) + * Yahoo and MSN get info support (Nathan Poznick) + * Fixed Jabber registrations. + * Fixed a problem where pouncing two users with the same name + appeared in the same conversation window, and other related + * Corrected problems with proxy preferences. + * Mailchk.c and simple.c compile again (Paul A (darkrain)) +version 0.67 (08/14/2003): + * Brought back the message notification plugin (Brian Tarricone) + You'll need to reconfigure your settings for this plugin + * IRC protocol plugin rewritten (Ethan Blanton) + * New IRC protocol icon (Nuno Donato) + * Protocol and status icons now optionally appear on tabs. + * Various dialog rewrites (Jabber vCard, Add Group, Alias Chat, + * Shows "hiptop" icon for AIM buddies using hiptop + devices (Robey Pointer) + * Privacy core/UI split. + * Conversation placement by group now applies to chats in the buddy + * Events in a conversation (user logged in, logged out, window closed, + etc.) now grey the tab. + * Various bug fixes (larne from irc, Tim Ringenbach, Bjoern + Voigt, Paul A (darkrain)) +version 0.66 (07/18/2003): + * Freebsd compile fix (Matthew Luckie) + * .spec file improvements (Ethan Blanton) + * Added a gaim-remote man page (Robert McQueen) + * The Remote Control plugin no longer adds duplicate groups to your + * Servers and ports are now imported correctly in MSN. + * Core/UI split the core initialization and shutdown. + * MSN messages with newlines are now sent correctly to MSN clients. + * Fix some sound initialization stuff + * Fix saving and import of default away message +version 0.65 (07/16/2003): + * Massive internal core/ui splitting + * Preferences moved to ~/.gaim/prefs.xml + * Account information moved to ~/.gaim/accounts.xml + * Pounces moved to ~/.gaim/pounces.xml + * Added protocol icons to various drop-down boxes + * New Send IM buddy icon merged from Ximian Desktop 2 + * Fixed "Sort by Status" crash + * Fixed the MSN signon crash + * Fixed the MSN add buddy crash + * Fixed the MSN empty buddy list bug + * Fixed all known MSN chat bugs + * Fixed HTTP redirect handling in smiley retrieval. This fixes the + problems with some smiley themes. + * Chats in MSN can now be initiated by right-clicking a buddy and + choosing Initiate Chat. + * MSN Alerts and incoming MSN pages no longer pop up several error + * Ability to view iChat "Available" messages for AIM + * Stores your buddy icon on the server for AIM + * Support for non-ascii characters with Yahoo! Messenger + * Focus returns to the input box when you click elsewhere, like it used + * New typing notification icons from Ximian +version 0.64 (05/29/2003): + * Buddy list sorting in buddy list preferences. + * Improved debug window with timestamps and pause buttons. + * New core/ui split notification and request APIs. + * New mail notification dialog. + * Several bug fixes in MSN. + * Conversation window buddy icon bugs were fixed. +version 0.63 (05/16/2003): + * A rewrite of the plugin API. Plugin authors will need to change their + code based off the changes found in other plugins. + * Perl script support is now provided in the perl plugin. + * Debugging is core/ui split, and has a new API with support for + debug levels and categories. + * Support for adding chats to your buddy list. + * MSN protocol plugin was rewritten, has experimental buddy icon + support, and MSN Mobile support. + * Buddy list speed enhancements (Thanks Ethan Blanton). + * Napster protocol updates (Thanks Auke Kok). +version 0.62 (04/23/2003): + * Keyboard shortcuts in the buddy list work again (Thanks Joe + * Support for Jabber XHTML messages + * Ability to re-request authorization from ICQ and Jabber users by right + clicking on them in your buddy list. + * Improved Zephyr internationalization. + * Bug causing 'Hide on Send' windows to be lost forever fixed. + * Iconified windows are now raised properly. + * Dates printed for old/offline messages. + * Some assorted crash bugs fixed. +version 0.61 (04/07/2003): + * Split the buddy pounce core and UI, and rewrote the UI for it. + * Removed folder icons and excess space from the buddy list (Thanks + * Fixed a bug involving dragging buddies and groups + * Re-implemented the logout icons. + * New icons for "away" and "aol" (Thanks, Moses Lei) +version 0.60 (04/04/2003): + * Auto-loading protocol plugins. + * Plugins dialog and perl script menu merged into preferences. + * Don't auto-login if an existing Gaim session is already + * Moved "privacy preferences" to Tools menu. + * -n, --loginwin option to disable autologins. + * Added support for gettext 0.11.x. + * Added support for automake 1.6. + * aim:// URI's supported with gaim-remote command. + * Quit Gaim remotely with gaim-remote. (Thanks, John Silvestri) + * Added rudimentary support for X11R6 session management. (Thanks, + * Conversation backend and UI are now separated. (Thanks, + * Asynchronous, non-blocking, DNS function (Thanks, Nicolas + * As a side effect of the above: IPv6 support. Tested only with IRC + (you can receive ipv6 chat requests from irssi!). + * Tray icon plugin--replaces the old GNOME applet. You'll need + the panel Notification Area applet (aka system-tray-applet) + for GNOME 2, or the Kicker for KDE 3.1. (Thanks, Robert + McQueen, Nicolás Lichtmaier, Kristian Rietveld, Ari Pollak & + * Added GAIM::remove_event_handler and made set_info short + circuitable in perl. (Thanks, Ryan McCabe) + * event_del_conversation for plugins. (Thanks, Bill Tompkins) + * Notify.c plugin rewritten; check its configure dialog. (Thanks, + * Buddy Ticker made a plugin. + * Idle Maker added to source. + * Fortune profile added to source. + * TOC no longer compiles statically by default--use OSCAR. + * ICQ plugin no longer gets built--use OSCAR. + * Server-stored buddy lists for ICQ with full support for + authorization (Thanks, Mark Doliner) + * File send/receive support for Aim over Oscar (Thanks, William T. + Mahan and Mark Doliner) + * Non-direct connect typing notification for AIM over OSCAR. + * Allow only people in buddy list privacy option added for AIM. + * Full ICQ info reading support. (Thanks, Vincas Ciziunas) + * Support for synchronizing group renames on server. Group + rename server synchronization for AIM. Server-side + synchronization for moving individual AIM buddy to new + group improved. (Thanks, Mark Doliner) + * Ability to add screenname@mac.com people to AIM buddy lists. + (Thanks, Graham Booker) + * Ability to change ICQ password. (Thanks, Mark Doliner) + * Option to have AIM notify you if you have + unread mail. (Thanks, Mark Doliner) + * Parse URL messages, Contact Sending and Pager Messages + in ICQ. (Thanks, Mark Doliner) + * use snprintf instead of sprintf. (Thanks, William T. Mahan) + * Fixed crashbug on empty rvous requests. (Thanks Brandon Scott + (Xeon) for pointing this out, and Matt Pandina for the patch) + * Nice Oscar changes--mostly internal. (Thanks, Mark Doliner) + * Added more IRC slash commands -- /W, /VERSION, /MODE, /CTCP stuff, + -- and other cool IRC enhancments. (Thanks, Jonas Birmé) + * IRC's /topic with no argument displays the current topic (Thanks, + * DCC File Receive support for IRC. + * Optional password on IRC accounts. (Thanks, Christian Hammond) + * Added half-op support. + * Jabber invisibility and permanently cancel sending on- + line status to Jabber buddies. + * Jabber roster updated on group renames. + * Fixed a possible segfault when signing off Jabber. (Thanks, + * Improved typing notification support for Jabber and + Yahoo! (Thanks, Nathan Walp) + * File receive support for Jabber. (Thanks, Nathan Walp) + * MSN users are notified when the other party closes the conversation + window. (Thanks, Christian Hammond) + * File receive support for MSN. (Thanks, Christian Hammond) + * Now using libiconv for better i18n support (Thanks, Junichi + * Lots of i18n fixes (Thanks Matt Wilson, Ethan Blanton, A Lee) + * Correct i18n handling for many parts of AIM/ICQ, including + instant messages, away messages, and profiles (Thanks, + * Improved MSN internationalization (Thanks, A Lee) + * Optionally uniquely colorize nicks in chats + * Add / Remove buddy menu item added to the chat users list + * View log button in conversation toolbar (Thanks, Etan Reisner) + * Option to log IMs and Chats seperately. (Thanks, Etan + * Removed Ctrl-C binding for color + * Fix first message in tab not displaying bug (Thanks, Etan Reisner) + * Changed some default options + * Updated desktop and window icons (Thanks, Robert McQueen) + * Switch the .desktop file to the new KDE/GNOME common vfolder + format (Thanks, Robert McQueen) + * Removed all deprecated GTK calls. Now 100% GTK 2. (Thanks Nathan + Walp, Christian Hammond, Ari Pollak, Ethan Blanton, Robert McQueen) + * Read proxy environment variables. (Thanks, Christian Hammond) + * Fixed security vulnerability with manual browser option (Thanks, + * Can get info for ICQ and Jabber users from the "Edit + Buddies" tab (Thanks, Brian Bernas) + * Code cleanups and fixes (Thanks, Federico Mena Quintero and + * Word-wrapping on mail notification text (Thanks, Andrew Molloy) + * Generic File Transfer PRPL interface (Thanks, Christian Hammond) + * Better supression of auto-responses (Thanks, Joshua Blanton) + * Drag-and-drop tabs in conversations, and multiple windows with tabs + in each (Thanks, Christian Hammond) +version 0.59.9 (03/01/2003): + * Updated zh_TW.po file (Thanks breeze833) + * Fix an oscar bug that caused some messages from + AOL 8.0 to be dropped (Thanks Mark Doliner) + * Changed "openprojects" to "freenode" in irc.c + * Fixed charset conversion on systems which use a BOM for UCS-4 + (Thanks, Alfredo Pen~a, Ethan Blanton) + * Fixed a typo in the man page (Thanks Eric S. Raymond) +version 0.59.8 (01/06/2003): + * Ripped out all gtk2 support (Thanks Nathan Walp). + * Fixed smiley related segfault (Thanks Robert McQueen) + * Yahoo! can connect again +version 0.59.7 (12/21/2002): + * Yahoo i18n fix (Thanks Ethan Blanton). + * Fixed a bug in escaping saved passwords (Thanks + * Fixed an overflow bug in perl script autoloading + (Thanks David Kaelbling) + * Some build fixes for those using stricter compilers, + notably MIPSpro (Thanks David Kaelbling) + * Fixed a bad argument to accept() calls (Thanks David + * Fixed crashbug on empty rvous requests (Thanks Brandon Scott (Xeon)) + for being the first to point this out. +version 0.59.6 (11/07/2002): + * Fixed a segfault introduced in 0.59.5 when gtk + fails to read the ~/.gtkrc or reads it but fails + to create a style from it. + * Jabber conference timestamps are no longer gigantic +version 0.59.5 (10/14/2002): + * Fixed a Yahoo! segfault (Thanks, Craig Metz) +version 0.59.4 (10/06/2002): + * Removed color keybinnding altogether. + * Added a horizontal scrollbar to Edit page of + buddy list. (Thanks, David Fallon) + * Various bug fixes ((Thanks to (in no particular order) + Ethan Blanton, Mark Doliner, Luke Schierer) + * i18n fixes (thanks, A Lee) +version 0.59.3 (09/14/2002): + * Reversed patch that accidentally caused Yahoo + not to connect--for implementation reasons + * Changed "color" binding to Ctrl-K. + * Unaliaising a person in the "Online" tab will show up + in the "Edit" tab as well (Thanks, Jason Willis) + * Internationalization fixes, esp. with UTF-8 locales + (Thanks Matt Wilson and Ethan Blanton) +version 0.59.2 (09/09/2002): + * Japanese translation updated (Thanks, Junichi Uekawa) + * Won't crash when you set your MSN Friendly name to an + * Default manual browser command changed to reflect the + * Fixed the non-manual browser settings which were broke in + 0.59.1 (Thanks, Chris Blizzard) + * Improved MSN internationalization (Thanks A Lee) + * Smiley lookup will search for longest match for smilies + like :-(( (Thanks Eric Melski) + * When an IM image is clicked, don't open the browser (Thanks + * Prevent a possible crash in unhide_buddy_list() (Thanks Ari + * Fixed a compilation problem on systems without iconv. + * GtkIMHtml can be set to render font sizes as point size + or AIMish relative sizes -- no more huge Yahoo fonts. (Thanks + * Fixed a bug with regard to Jabber resources (Thanks Nathan + * Fixed a possible segfault when signing off Jabber (Thanks + * Word-wrapping on mail notification text (Thanks, Andrew Molloy) + * Strip trailing and leading spaces from MSN/Yahoo names (Thanks, +version 0.59.1 (08/25/2002): + * Created a gtk1-stable branch for GTK+ 1.2 bugfix releases. + Development will continue in our main branch in GTK+ 2 only. + * Fixed a security bug in the manual browser setting (Thanks + * Now using libiconv for better i18n support (Thanks Junichi + * Will work with Perl 5.8 (thanks, Timothy Lee and Dan + * Fix for HTTP proxies (thanks, Ethan Blanton) + * Read proxy environment variables. (thanks, Christian Hammond) + * Use the pretty gaim.png for our menu entry. + * Added support for gettext 0.11.x. +version 0.59 (06/24/2002): + * 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, + * 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 + * Gaim can now handle messages from Mac ICQ and Miranda ICQ + * Added Mozilla to browser options and changed KFM to + * 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 +version 0.58 (05/13/2002): + * Better applet transparency + * Option to raise buddy list on signons/signoffs + * Formatting of incoming MSN messages + * Get Info from menu multiple-account-aware (thanks + * Hide and unhide functions for the filectl plugin. + * 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 + * 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 + * Jabber "Change buddy group" roster synchronization now + works again. (This was unknowingly 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 and inconsistency 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 + * Timezone support improved. +version 0.57 (04/25/2002): + * New authorization method for Yahoo! + * Jabber will tell you when your buddies signed on (Thanks + * Jabber improvements (Thanks, Nathan Walp) + * More keyboard shortcuts + * event_chat_recv takes char**'s, and event_im_recv takes + * Secure hotmail login for MSN (thanks for the tips, +version 0.56 (04/11/2002): + * Shell-like send history binded to Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down + * libjabber upgraded to most recent stable version + * Buddylist looks a little better + * Fixed MSN privacy settings + * Group deletion fix (Thanks Mark Doliner) + * Alias/Group syncronization for Jabber (Thanks JSeymour) + * Fixed broken signal handling in gdm-started GNOME sessions + (Thanks Jim Seymour, Vann, Robert McQueen) + * Oscar group syncronization (Thanks, Mark Doliner) + * ICQ Authorization via Oscar (Thanks, Mark Doliner) +version 0.55 (03/29/2002): + * Jabber improvements (Thanks Jim Seymour) + * Various sound cleanups (Thanks Robert McQueen) + * Login process shown in single window (Thanks Michael + * Can reorder your accounts in the account editor (Thanks + * Shows "mobile" icon for Oscar buddies using mobile + devices (Thanks Mark Doliner) + * Fixed bug in MSN smilies that crashed PPC (and other?) platforms + * HTTP Proxy settings now HTTP compliant (Thanks Robert McQueen) + * Speling corections (Thanks Tero Kuusela) + * Oscar list icon fixes (Thanks Mark Doliner) + * Oscar idle times work again (Thanks Mark Doliner) + * Protocol icons on Edit Buddies tab (Thanks Christian Hammond) +version 0.54 (03/14/2002): + * Compiles without GdkPixbuf again + * GtkIMHtml will refresh when you set a new GTK+ theme + * Improved Yahoo! typing notification (thanks Brian Macke) + * Prompt to authorize MSN buddies who added you while you + were offline (Thanks Jason Willis) + * Option to globally disable Buddy Icon animation (Thanks + * Yahoo! will tell you when your buddies are playing Yahoo! + games and give you the ability to join them + * Yahoo! can receive offline messages + * IRC will convert HTML formatting to mIRC formatting. + * Buddylist tab placement option (Thanks Jason Willis) + * Protocol specific smiley faces +version 0.53 (02/28/2002): + * Minor bug fixes re: queued away messages + * Better buddy icon transparency (for real this time ;-)) + * Ability to change formatting of Oscar screen name + * Better selection in HTML widget (Thanks BMiller) + * New icons for ICQ (Thanks Kevin Miller) + * Editable buddy pounces (Thanks Jason Willis) + * Server side buddy lists in Oscar (Thanks Mark Doliner :-)) + * Fix for the chatlist plugin + * Typing Notification (AIM Direct Connect, Yahoo, MSN) + * IM Images (Receive Only) + * Prettier GtkImHtml selection + * Better buddy icon transparency (for real this time ;-) ) +version 0.52 (02/17/2002): + * Better buddy icon transparency (thanks SeanEgan) + * Fixed a little bug with connecting via proxy (thanks + for reminding me of this, Manish Singh) + * Yahoo! Messenger works again + * Can register a new user with a Jabber Server (JSeymour) + * Can now set Jabber vCards (JSeymour) + * Jabber vCards are now shown in their entirety (JSeymour) + * Various jabber bug fixes/enhancements (JSeymour) +version 0.51 (01/24/2002): + * Arrow buttons in log viewer and some other dialogs + work (thanks Ben Miller) + * Option to only send auto-response while idle (thanks + * Control time between sending auto-responses (thanks + * Should be able to sign on to Oscar using Mac OS X + (thanks Fingolfin, Vincas Ciziunas, et al.) +version 0.50 (12/14/2001): + * Able to import GnomeICU contact lists + * Galeon as browser option (Thanks Rob McQueen) + * IRC /list, /invite (Thanks Sean Egan) + * Option to have IMs and Chats tabbed in same window + * Finally put the lagmeter plugin out of its misery and + removed it. (/me dances on its grave.) +version 0.49 (11/29/2001): + * Can compile against GTK+ 2.0 (version 1.3.10/1.3.11) + * Confirm before removing buddies + * Yahoo updates (thanks Brian Macke) + * Zephyr updates (thanks Arun A Tharuvai) + * Gadu-Gadu updates (thanks Arkadiusz Miskiewicz) + * Option to show aliases in conversation tabs + * Option to hide windows after sending messages + * licq2gaim.pl conversion script (thanks Arturo Cisneros, Jr.) +version 0.48 (11/18/2001): + * Right-click on links to open/copy URL + * Oscar can send/receive offline messages in ICQ. Since the "real" + ICQ protocol isn't working too well it's recommended that you +version 0.47 (11/01/2001): + * 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 + * When creating a new buddy pounce, gaim now automagically + selects "on away" or "on idle", if the user is away + * 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 + * You can choose which sound player you use at run-time + * 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) + * In MSN you can set a person's alias to their "friendly name" by + right-click on their name while they're online. + * The usual bug fixes and memory leak plugs +version 0.46 (10/18/2001): + * 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 + * 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 + * Pressing 'signon' on the first screen for accounts that + do not require passwords no longer incorrectly displays +version 0.45 (10/04/2001): + * New plugin event: event_chat_send_invite + * Major updates to the perl system (reread PERL-HOWTO and + * Major updates to event_chat_* events for plugins (reread + * Some GtkIMHtml improvements + * 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) +version 0.44 (09/20/2001): + * 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 + * Temporarily removed Jabber user registration, which wasn't + * Added a spiffy Help button + * Wrote a plugin for all those people who miss having the + chat rooms in their buddy lists (chatlist.so) + * 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 + * Option to hide buddy icons +version 0.43 (09/06/2001): + * Can change friendly name in MSN again + * Auto-reconnect plugin has exponential timeout (i.e. it + tries after 8 seconds, then 16, then 32, etc. up to 17 + * Removed file transfer things from Napster. It didn't work + well anyway. It'll be back eventually. (Does anyone even +version 0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001): + * Fixed a little segfault when images are links + * Redid the about box again. + * Fixed a nice little bug with the manual browser command + * Oscar Unicode fix (Thanks John Matthews) + * Can select which protocols are compiled statically + (e.g.: ./configure --with-static-prpls=oscar,jabber) + * New plugin events: event_im_displayed_sent and + event_im_displayed_rcvd. Use these to change messages after + they're displayed (e.g. encrypt sent messages, or send + auto-responses and have them display locally properly) + * Can use Arts for sound (thanks Tom Dyas) +version 0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001): + * Fixed a segfault with Oscar's account confirmation + * Some HTML widget changes + * Can specify hosts/ports for Yahoo (thanks Jeremy Brooks) +version 0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001): + * Can view/set chat topic in Jabber (thanks faceprint) + * The napster plugin no longer segfaults on invalid names + * HTML is properly stripped from away messages in protocols that + do not use HTML. (thanks, faceprint) + * Can view/set chat topic in IRC + * MSN properly escapes outgoing messages + * Much needed updates to the gaim man page (thanks, Sean Egan) +version 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001): + * Fixed a funny bug with auto responses when queued messages + * Redesigned the Font Options preference page + * Improved Jabber chat support (it whispers now, too) + * Zephyr can do Subscriptions now (thanks to nsanch) + * Auto-recon plugin got reworked + * Some new pixmaps (Thanks, DennisR). + * Fixed a segfault in IRC (Thanks Sean Egan) + * MSN can now change your 'friendly name' (Thanks for the + * More IRC improvements [colors, etc] (Thanks Sean Egan) + * Improved proxy options + * Fixed a small issue with HTML not being stripped from + log files properly (Thanks, faceprint and David Stoddard) + * Can turn on/off Yahoo! Mail announcements + * Can force messages through the server for ICQ (use this if + you have problems sending) + * Can receive buddy icons in Oscar (requires gdk_pixbuf, + which GNOME depends on. If you --disable-pixbuf, it will + * Redesigned plugins dialog (thanks Mike Heffner) +version 0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001): + * Zephyr updates and additions, thanks Neil Sanchala (nsanch) + * Jabber can send/accept chat invites (due to mid) + * MSN has the option to notify you of new hotmail + * Fixed a problem with ADD requests in MSN + * Fixed a small memory leak with MSN + * Moved MSN's spammy debug output into debug_printf's + * Can rename groups/buddies in the Edit Buddies pane + * Some perl updates (thanks to Sean Egan) + * IRC got the following slash commands: + op, deop, voice, devoice, mode, raw, quote, and kick (thanks + * MSN Properly handles URL decoding of 'friendly' names + * Redesigned Preferences pages (design by DennisR) + * Can select where tabs are for tabbed IM/Chat windows + * Option to queue away messages while away + * Jabber got good updates (from faceprint) + * Oh yes, and Oscar works, yet again. (gee... that's what, 4 + releases that have "fixed" it now?) +version 0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001): + * Can choose to not send away auto-response (thanks phzzzt) + * Uh... Oscar works? For now? + * IRC Plugin can do whois (right click and info) + * IRC Plugin got away message support + * Gaim blist to WinAIM blt perl script (courtesy Andy Harrison) + * Sound on buddy pounce (Thanks Andrew Echols) + * Can view all group chats in one tabbed window (same keybindings + as for tabbed normal conversations) + * More Protocol plugins: + Zephyr (plugins/zephyr) (DON'T USE THIS unless you know + what it is and why you'd want to use it) +version 0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001): + * Can register Jabber accounts (load the Jabber plugin and click + Register on the login window) + * GtkIMHtml handles themes (no background pixmaps though) (thanks + * URLS Linkify properly in Buddy chats + * Jabber compiles better on Solaris? + * Gaim works with Oscar Again (Huge thanks to Adam Fritzler of +version 0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001): + * Fixed a problem with MSN not detecting signoffs and buddy updates. + * Implemented away options in MSN + * Alt-[1-9] to go to [1-9]th pane in tabbed convo window + * Jabber fixes, Oscar fixes (!), Yahoo fixes, TOC fixes + * Can use Alt to access menu, and Ctl-char for certain actions + * Oscar blocking works (?) + * MSN can see status of other users +version 0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001): + * Can build RPMs as non-root + * New yahoo library (can use HTTP proxy) + * Command-line arg to specify config file (thanks Jason Boerner) + * Can view all conversations in one tabbed window (Control-[ and + Control-] move left and right respectively; Control-Tab moves + to the next unread, or the next tab if there are no unread tabs) + * Tooltips on links work again + * Can log system notices: signons/signoffs, awayness and idleness +version 0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001): + * Fixed bug with NAS support + * Napster plugin is included again + (Thanks for pointing out that it was missing, + * Oscar can: search by email, request confirmation, change password + * Faster HTML parsing/rendering +version 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001): + * ICQ Alias problem fixed + * Cannot create blank away messages/messages with blank titles + * Can right-click Edit Buddies list to alias/add pounce/etc. + * Ability to independently set accounts as away + * Can use all away states for ICQ, Yahoo (N/A, Be Right Back, etc.) + * Can close windows by hitting 'Esc' (optional) + * Can toggle timestamps by hitting F2 (optional) + * Rewritten file transfer for TOC + * Log Viewer (courtesy BMiller) + * Can save conversation history + * Napster can kinda sorta download files sometimes :) + * You can activate IDs in Yahoo + * ICQ upgraded to use icqlib 1.1.5 + * ICQ upgraded to use icqlib 1.1.0 + * An enormous amount of bug fixes + * Even More Protocol Plugins: + Jabber (plugins/jabber) + Napster (plugins/napster.c) + * Fixed a segfault with 'Ignore new conversations while away' +version 0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000): + * Away messages arranged alphabetically (Thanks Justin) + * Can optionally run command to play sound files + * Icons for ICQ plugin (blatently stolen from GnomeICU) + * Icons for Yahoo plugin (not-so-blatently stolen from GTKYahoo) + * Optionally display warning level next to name in buddy list + * Optionally ignore fonts on incoming messages + * Command-line option to automatically set yourself as + away upon signon (thanks bmiller) + * Buddy list backups now stored in ~/.gaim/SN.protocol.blist (gaim will + move the old file for you). Needed for when you have the same name on + two different protocols. (Oscar and TOC share the same file.) + * More Protocol plugins: +version 0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000): + * Fixed a segfault with a bad util.c +version 0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000): + * Logs now stored to ~/.gaim/logs rather than ~/.gaim/SN/ + * User configurable sounds + * Scroll bar now functions properly in chat room user lists + * X-Idle support added (thanks bmiller and bryner) + * small change in the way away messages are displayed + (Thanks Ryan C. Gordon) + * Plugin system uses GModule now (improves portability, adds features) + (Requires recompile and probably modifications of most plugins) + * Perl got updates (reread plugins/PERL-HOWTO) + * Spell checker now uses gtkspell + * Auto-Away (thanks, yet again, to bmiller ;) + * More buddy pounce options + * Various GUI improvements +version 0.10.3 (10/09/2000): + * Segfault when viewing user info fixed +version 0.10.2 (10/07/2000): + * A few fixes to the URL parser. + * Better placement of smiley dialog + * Improved log file readibility + * Code cleanups (thanks kylev) + * Fixed problem when closing away message box (thanks bmiller) + * sprintf() problem on some systems + * Various small bug fixes +version 0.10.1 (09/15/2000): + * Better chatroom logging + * Oscar works again. Pay no attention to Slashdot. + * gtkhtml handles background colours better. + * A third conversation window display preference. + * Better support for things like Sawfish +version 0.10.0 (09/11/2000): + * New Smiley Faces and Pixmaps added. + * Smiley faces now properly wrap in the conversation windows. + * Fixed 0-byte file segfault. + * Borderless buttons (for that cool pop-up look) + * Fixed some resizing bugs + * Added Ctrl+{B/I/U/S} hotkeys to conversation windows. + * Added Ctrl+(number) hotkeys to insert smileys in conversation windows. + * Support for %n, %d, and %t in away messages. Thanks bmiller! + * Redesigned preferences dialog + * Redesigned conversation dialog + * Removed the Lag-O-Meter (Lag-O-Meter is now a plugin) + * SOCKS 4/5 proxy works + * Buddy Pounces are now saved in .gaimrc + * Buddy Chats are now saved in .gaimrc + * Ability to merge gaim, aim2, aim4 buddylists. Thanks again bmiller! + * ICQ-style aliases. This lets you change the name you see your buddy + as. For example, if your buddy's SN is 'CouldntGetMyName', you can + * Compile with GNOME bits if available + * Added GNOME Url Handler as an available web-browser + * Added the S html tag. + * Optionally Ignore TiK's Automated Messages + * Option to beep instead of play sound + * New icons for panel (depends on some GNOME pixmaps) + * Perl scripting. See plugins/PERL-HOWTO for how to write perl scripts. + All .pl files in ~/.gaim are autoloaded when gaim starts. + * HTML widget is faster, more stable +version 0.9.20 (07/14/2000): + * More plugin events, more plugin features + * Run-time OSCAR support + * Added buddy list ticker (See prefs/Appearance). Clicking on a + name will cause a new or previous IM window to display for + * "You are sending messages too quickly" error is now fixed + when you have a large buddylist. + * Fixed the LC_ALL compile problem on Solaris boxes + * Fixed PPC and ARM compile problem with oscar.c + * Smileys work better, and don't cause font attributes to drop + * Dialog windows are now prettier + * /me in IM window; font/color dialogs and smileys in chat window +version 0.9.19 (06/09/2000): + * Graphical Smiley Faces + * Applet got a bit of a makeover (inside & out) + * Compile-time options affect Preferences dialog + * Whispering in chat works (does anyone even use this?) + * HTML-tag buttons in chat + * Chat got all kinds of new features (like IRC-sytle /me) + * Chat in oscar works much better + * Fixed the segfault when your server-side config is null +version 0.9.18 (06/02/2000): + * Logging in works better for oscar + * Double error bug when sending message to an offline user is + * Pressing enter once again sends a message in buddy chatrooms (oops) + * More fixes for the change on the AOL sign-on process. + * Fixed bug where Gaim sometimes doesn't find a font to use. + * Per-conversation font and color dialogs (thanks fflewddur) + * Chat in oscar works (somewhat) + * Even more fixes for the sign-on process, and now you don't flash when + setting permit/deny lists. +version 0.9.17 (05/31/2000): + * Automagic feature to check for new versions has been removed + * Infinite loop bug fixed +version 0.9.16 (05/31/2000): + * Paned buddy chat window (Thanks Syd) + * Buddy lists (and changes) are cached to ~/.gaim/<sn>.blist + where <sn> is your screen name. If for some reason, you log + into the AOL server and the buddy list comes back empty, we + check for a cache file, and, if we find one, read it in. This + essentially implements recovery from a server crash at AOL + (AOL does not back up machines that contain TOC-based buddy + lists, unfortunately). (Thanks Syd) + * Font selection dialog + * Small changes to the Oscar/libfaim stuff (see libfaim/README.gaim) + * SOCKS 4 proxy support + * Better proxy support overall (you can get people's info now! :) ) + * Two-way file transfer (you can get and send files, but you still + * Fixed font problem with Misconfigured X-Servers. Thanks Decklin! + * Fixed the No Configuration problem that came about today (5/31) +version 0.9.15 (05/06/2000): + * Plugin support enabled by default (oops) + * Some plugins built/installed by default + * Option to automagically check for new releases + * Ability to receive files (one-way file transfer) + * In-line spell checker (thanks to Torrey Searle of the + Everybuddy Devel team for this one) +version 0.9.14 (04/24/2000): + * Numerous Fixes by G. Sumner Hayes (buffer over flow patches, + * Paned Conversation Windows (Thanks Syd) + * Raise Window On Message Received, Fixed (Thanks Syd) + * When multiple screen names, Gaim now correctly remembers the name + * FONT sizes now work correctly. + * PLUGIN SUPPORT!! (Lots of cool goodies here) + * Fixed another leak or two + * Added ability to change your screenname password +version 0.9.13 (03/27/2000): + * Dialog Box Segfault Fixed (When You Click A Toggle Then Cancel) + * Double Log-Out Message Fixed + * GNOME compile error fixed + * Away Message Problem Fixed + * Fixed URL Right Click Menus + * Conversation Loggin now shows Full Date and Time + * Internal Change to Buddy List +version 0.9.12 (03/25/2000): + * Segfault fix for PPC/Alpha/etc machines with log(0) + Thanks to Todd Cohen for this one. + * Small internal change to the way prefs work + * GNOME Applet support works better + (thanks to Eric Warmenhoven for the patch) + * Support for displaying true type fonts + * Lag-O-Meter does not send lag-test if not selected + * Fixed problem with saving away messages which contain spaces + * Various GNOME Applet Enhancements (thanks AGAIN to + Eric. Someone needs to stop this boy :-) ) + * A lot of random, obscure bugs fixed + * All of the major and I believe all of the minor memory leaks are + (Thanks to Peter Teichman, Larry Ewing, Jeramey Crawford, and me) +version 0.9.11 (03/22/2000): + * <STRIKE>Strike Tag Support</STRIKE> :-) + * Another memory leak fix + * Better support for multiple screen names + * Saving of buddylist window position + * Fixed a problem with Gaim and the Netscape-branded version + * More General Properties + * Bigger Text-Entry field (Thanks to CrazyDavy for this one) + * Various Random Bug fixes +version 0.9.10 (11/03/1999): + * Fixed a nasty memory leak. No more 40M Gaim processes. LOL + * IDLE Times are displayed in a neater fashion. +version 0.9.9 (10/31/1999): + * A little selection bug has been squished + * Small memory leak fixed + * Small network fix (problem with HTTP Proxy fixed?) + * Proxy stuff should work now :) + * Widget table support, dir info looks nicer + * Info box looks nicer (thanks to Decklin Foster) + * Client now 'corrects' time values from the server for accurate + * Lag-O-Meter (ala Drunken Jim) +version 0.9.8 (10/04/1999): + * HTTP Proxy Support (No SOCKS yet) + * HTML Widget more robust + * Graphical Debug Window + * Some logging fixes and improvements + * configurable host/port selection + * Clickable Links in buddy chat + * Display Signon/Signoff messages in conversation windows + * Option to strip HTML from logged messages + * GNOME cleanups (It might work now haha) + * When viewing user info, URLS are converted to clickable links +version 0.9.7 (08/08/1999): + * Preliminary Oscar Support + * Fixed bad network bug + * Fixed some bad text rendering bugs in the HTML widget + * log all conversation names are now normalized. + * Fixed another bad network bug :) + * Multiple browser support, some Netscape buggies fixed. + * Permit/Deny preferences moved to 'Permit' pane on buddylist. + * Fixed problem with _, ', and \ in passwords +version 0.9.6 (08/01/1999): + * Fixed 'log all conversation' segfault + * Removed Xmu dependancies. + * Restructured network code + * ESD detection more robust. + * Sound fallbacks are MUCH more robust! +version 0.9.5 (07/25/1999): + * Fixed About Box SegFault + * Autologin Works with Applet + * Option to Show Buddy List after Signon with Applet + * 2048 character messages + * Away-Detection (shows a different icon on the buddy list) + * Fixed Segfault with messages > allowed size + * Added option to log all conversations + * Changed g_new to g_new0 + * Buddy List: Right Click Menus + * New HTML widget (Underline/Links/HRs) + * Updated Toolbar with 'Underline' Icon + * More Buddy Pounce Options + * Option to auto-change urls into clickable links (Under Prefs) + * Better Buddy Chat functionality + * Registration Information (Let Us Know Who You Are) + * Buddy Chat Prefs (Update Chatroom Lists) + * FAQ added to the distribution + * Sound problem with some systems fixed + * Autostart of Netscape on URL Click + * DnD Rearranging of Groups + * Better Netscape Functionality + * Right Click `URL' Menus + * DnD Rearranging of Buddies + * Script to convert win95 buddylist to gaim buddylist + * Added `Link/URL' button to conversation window + * ESD is now autodetected + * Not too important but we GNU-ified the source tree :) +version 0.8.0 (04/31/1999): + * Buddylist import/export + * Coloured Text Selection + * `Blocking' on conversation window + * Add/Remove buddy from conversation window + * Scroll-Wheel Mice work in Conversation Window + * Fixed WindowMaker Appicon + * version Number in About Box + * Gaim Slogan in about box :) + * Created Changelog File :) --- a/hugo/static/robots.txt Mon Jan 13 10:32:35 2020 +0000
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+# MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWNXKOkxddooooooooooooodddxkOKXNWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWXKOxdodxkkO0KKXXXNNNNNXXKK0OOkxdodxOKXWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWNXOxdoxk0KXWWMMMMMWWWWWMMMMMMMMMMWWNK0kxodxOXNWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMMMMMMWXOxodk0XWWMMMMMMMMMNklccooxOXWMMMMMMMMMMWWX0kdoxOXWMMMMMMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMMMMNKkook0NWMMMMMMMMMMMW0o:,.....':dKWMMMMMMMMMMMMWN0kookKNMMMMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMMNKxodOXWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWKl'....'''.':x0NWMMMMMMMMMMMMWXOdox0NWMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMWKxodOXWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMW0dc,''.''''''''',:okXMMMMMMMMMMMMWNOdoxKWMMMMMMM +# MMMMMWXOooOXWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMW0l,''''''''''''''''''':kNMMMMMMMMMMMMWXOooONWMMMMM +# MMMMWKxoxKWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNx;'''''''''''''''''''''''oXMMMMMMMMMMMMMWKxoxKWMMMM +# MMMW0dokNWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNx,'',;cool:;,''''''''''',;cd0NMMMMMMMMMMMMMXkod0WMMM +# MMW0ooONMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM0:'',ckXXKK0d:,,,,,,,,,';oOKK00NMMMMMMMMMMMMMNOoo0WMM +# MW0ooONMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWx,',;xN0:;dNKc,,,,,,,,,,:xo;dX00WMMMMMMMMMMMMMWOoo0WM +# WKdlkNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd,,,;dXKolkXO:,,,,,,,,,,;ldokKkOWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNkldKW +# NklxXMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWx;,,;cdO00kd:;;;;colcll:,;lxkdxXMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWXxlkN +# 0oo0WMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMO;,,,;:cc:;;;;;;:x0Okkkl,,,,:kNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMW0oo0 +# xlxNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM0:,;;;;;;;;;:cllldOOkdlc:;,,oNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNxlx +# ooOWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMKc,;;;;;;;;;;clodO00kxol:;;;kWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWOlo +# loKWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMKl,;;;;;;;;;;;;;:codxdc;;;,cKMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWKol +# ldXMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMKl;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:::;;;;;oXMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMXdl +# ldXMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM0c;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;oXMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMXdl +# ldKWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWKl,;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:kNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWKdl +# oo0WMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWKx:,,;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;lkXWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMW0oo +# dlkNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWXOo:,',,,;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;,,,;lxKWMMMMMMMMMMMMMNkld +# OldXMMMMMMMMMMMMMXx:,''',,,,;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;,,'''';oKWMMMMMMMMMMMXdlk +# KdlONMMMMMMMMWKkd:''''''',,,,,;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;,,''''''';oxOXWMMMMMMWOldK +# WOoo0WMMMMWKxc,.....''''''',,,;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;,,''''''.....,cxXWMMWKdoOW +# MNkldKWMW0o,..........'''''',,,;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;,,,,,'''...........;dKWKdlkNM +# MMXklxKKd,..............''''''',,,;;;;;;;;;;;;;,,,,,'''...............;ddlkXMM +# MMMXkooc.................'''''''',,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,''.................':lkXWMM +# MMMMNko:,..................'''''''',,,,,,,,,,,,,,'''.................,cokNMMMM +# MMMMMN0dc;'..................''''''''',,,,,,,,''''.................';cd0NMMMMM +# MMMMMMWXkoc;'.''''...'''''...'''''''''''''''''''.'...''''''...'''';cokXWMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMNKxl:;,'''..'''''''';c:,'......''''''...';c;''''''''..',;clxKWMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMMMNKxoc:,''''''''',:ooolc:;,'..........':lol:'''''''',;cox0NMMMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMMMMMWKkdl:;;,,,,',coooooodol,.........,cooooo:,'',;::ldkKWMMMMMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMMMMMMMWN0kdlc:;,;coodddddddc'.......';lddddoooc;:cldk0NWMMMMMMMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWNKOxolclloooddddo;,...,,,;lodddooollloxOKNWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWNK0kxdoolllollc;::cllloolloodxkOKNWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM +# MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWWXKOkxdoolllllllloodxkOKXWWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
