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Adium X Previous Version History
Version 0.89.1 (4/10/2006) SVN revision: [15719]
- Turned off the ICQ "web aware" mode to reduce authorization requests from ICQ spam bots
- Fixed issues with Applescriptability of account status #3423
- Fixed Dutch Advanced Message Preferences
- Updated to meanwhile 1.0.1 and gaim-meanwhile 1.2.8 for improved Sametime support
- Added Turkish localization
Version 0.89 (2/12/2006) SVN revision: [15221]
- Fixed outgoing messages triggering "Conversation error", especially immediately after signing on, for MSN accounts (#2834)
- Fixed a common crash when suddenly disconnected from an SSL-using Jabber connection, including a Google Talk connection #1493
- Fixed display of Wingdings and Symbol characters originating from WinAIM and MacAIM clients
- Fixed keyboard navigation in the Join Group Chat window (#2853, OS X 10.4 only)
- Fixed a crash when receiving a malformed OTRv1 packet
- Fixed localization of Away and Idle dock icon images
- Fixed several miscellaneous localization issues
- Updated Australian English, Japanese, and Polish translations
Version 0.88 (1/24/2006) SVN revision: [15080]
- Adium is now a Universal binary
- Improved autoconnection when waking from sleep #1420
- Fixed MSN buddy icon retrieval and updating #31
- Upgraded to Growl 0.7.4
- Enabled interserver communication for Google Talk
- Fixed restoration of the contact list position when it is adjacent to a Dock on the right or left screen edges #156
- Fixed issues with PortableAdium
- Fixed a crash when playing demonstration speech text
- Fixed issues with transparency in the contact list for group bubbles and contact bubbles #96
- Fixed a crash when messaging Bonjour contacts who are actually offline
- Fixed issues with an incorrect maximum length for Yahoo! Japan account names
- Fixed a warning shown when connecting with certain .Mac screennames
- Fixed a crash with certain message styles and Show Header enabled #2473
- Fixed a Gadu-Gadu crash #2456
- Fixed autoconnect after sleep for newly added accounts and after holding Shift during Adium's startup
- Improved the textual equivalents for the Halo emoticon in the default emoticon pack #2786
- Improved the Uptime script #2734
- Fixed away and idle indicators in the Dock icon which were broken for most non-English localizations #2571
- Fixed localized display of date information in the message window #2537
- Fixed localization issues with the Away Status Window #2676
- Russian translation updates
- Added Australian English translation
Version 0.87 (12/15/2005) SVN revision: [14441]
- Updated to Off-the-Record 3.0.0 for OTRv2, implementing multiple usability improvements to encryption in the process #2068 #14 #119
- Added cmd-shift-Y as a shortcut for the available Custom... status menu item
- Fixed an issue in which an old away message was displayed in the message window when a contact went away #2048
- Fixed retrieval of ICQ nicknames when connecting #1859
- Fixed blocking of metacontacts
- Fixed initial display of Alias (Username) and Username (Alias) contact list display #226
- Fixed issues with the emoticon menu in the Appearance preferences #1864
- Fixed paste-with-formatting of certain text including links copied from Safari
- Fixed issues with updating of tab status icons when accounts sign on or off #2174
- Fixed the password prompt window for French users
- Fixed middle name support when using Address Book names
- Fixed issues with messaging Jabber contacts with + or \ in their names #2206
- Fixed issues with deleting chat logs with FileVault enabled #2022
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with the Yahoo service icon #348
- Fixed a drawing glitch when contacts have a newline in their display names #2154
- Fixed the display of service icons when originally displayed as a badge but user icons are then disabled. #2317
- Fixed an issue with changing your messaging font after selecting Set Font... in the Messages preferences
- Fixed a crash when opening the file transfer window if the Apple Gothic font is not installed
- Fixed initial display of the encryption and user icon toolbar icons if the toolbar was hidden when the window opened #136
- Fixed setting the font size by manual input in several places #545
- Fixed a cosmetic issue in the tabs when using large status icons #2070
- Fixed live updating by the 'show idle times' preference #2318
- Fixed a Bonjour-related crash
- Allow selection for copying of the OTR Private Key #2248
- Improved ability of third-party service plugins to provide appropriate service images #1170
- Improved presentation of away statuses such as BRB and Do Not Disturb in tooltips
- Improved the Eclipse message style #627 #729 #999
- Improved automatic installation from adiumXtras.com
- Removed the Sametime "contact list setting" option, defaulting to "Load and Save From/To Server"
- Catalan, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese translation updates
- Added Brazilian Portuguese translation
- Added Canadian English translation #2244
- Added Polish translation
Version 0.86 (10/27/2005) SVN revision: [13845]
- Resolved rate limiting error with the AIM protocol #1780
- Fixed issues when the default download folder does not exist or is not writable #1823
- Fixed duplicate install messages when installing a zipped Xtra which contained a __MACOSX folder
- Fixed incompatibilities when using multiple text-to-speech synthesizers #1929
- Added indication to the File Transfer Progress Window of upload vs. download #1987
- Middle names can be imported from the Address Book. #1118
- New log files can now be opened with Firefox. #706
- .Mac: We no longer add '@mac.com' to ICQ and mobile screen-names #1832
- ICQ: Aliases are now saved to the server #466
- Resolved some truncating issues in the status menu. #1782
- Catalan, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish translation updates
Version 0.85 (10/12/2005) SVN revision: [13701]
- Updated libgaim to obtain AIM file transfer Summer of Code improvements and other fixes
- Added a Google Talk service type #1306
- Added "contact joined" and "contact left" group chat status messages as well as corresponding Events #654
- Added %n (username), %a (alias), %m (message), and %t (time) substitution support to the Speak Text action #142
- Speech actions now use the Adium volume level specified in the General Preferences #1607
- Improved automatic AdiumXtras installation
- Implemented auto-saving of the Jabber conference server #802
- Improved message view display of right-to-left text for bi-directional languages #651
- Improved interface for the Play Sound action #762
- Improved <HR> tag handling
- Fixed a crash in many situations including when the remote side canceled a file transfer #140
- Fixed issues with erroneous linkification of text #249 #1580 #783
- Fixed issues with autoconnection of Jabber accounts #898
- Fixed resetting of the font when sending a blank IM
- Fixed issues with metaContacts created while groups are hidden #1398 #773
- Fixed a crash when accepting group chat invitations in some situations #140 #1405
- Fixed autocompletion of names in the Join Group Chat window
- Fixed the generic Away state being reported as N/A in ICQ
- Fixed status messages when canceling file transfers in certain situations
- Fixed issues with incorrect updating of existing message windows when changing message preferences #550
- Fixed problems in the Add Contact window when no groups exist #1551
- Fixed issues with speech having an initial rate or pitch of 0 #672
- Fixed issues with newly-added Sametime contacts #624
- Fixed text navigation issues in the Custom Status window #255
- Fixed display of the Yahoo authorization request window #1421
- Fixed issue with deletion of contacts in certain situations
- Fixed an alignment issue in the General Preferences #349
- Fixed issues with 'organize tabs into new windows by group' with no groups
- Fixed dragging a borderless contact list starting with a contextual menu open #1467
- Fixed positioning of text in certain windows in 10.2 #138
- Fixed a leak when displaying contact tooltips
- Fixed handling of URLs which cause Adium to be launched #1570
- Fixed autosizing of the Link Editor window #1669
- Fixed display of tiled background images #1603
- Fixed long-standing problem with the Color Picker stealing command-1 through command-4
- Fixed service-specific emoticon precedence for group chat
- Append @mac.com when adding a DotMac contact and it isn't already present #1697
- We now fallback on the default service icon to look for a service icon if the current pack does not provide one #1660
- Removed duplicate Copy Link contextual menu item in 10.4 #1132
- Added a "New Group..." item to the Groups menu in the Add contact window #1552
- Applescripts whose keywords begin with / now only work at the beginning of a line. AdiumXtras authors should update such scripts to have keywords beginning with %_
- Added Spanish translation
- Updated all other translations
Version 0.84 (8/25/2005) SVN revision: [13263]
- Fixed issues with 0.83 related to incomplete loading of the buddy list and authorization problems
Version 0.83 (8/23/2005) SVN revision: [13221]
- Fixed a crash when canceling a file transfer after the remote side has already canceled #140
- Fixed message display on Hebrew and Arabic systems in 10.3.9 and later #782
- Fixed handling of aim:gochat links
- Fixed handling of ICQ away messages #824
- Fixed "Add to my contact list" in the authorization request window for MSN #1023
- Fixed updating of metacontact icons #733 #988 #366 #991
- Fixed updating of the user icon toolbar button #133 #230
- Fixed issues with the Status Menu Item (EMD) becoming stuck in the unviewed content state
- Fixed a crash when changing colors in the color picker opened by the message preferences after the preferences are closed
- Fixed reporting of MSN timeout errors
- Fixed crashes when using .AdiumScripts
- Fixed shadow 'ghosting' for transparent contact lists #813
- Fixed (null) showing up in certain message styles
- Fixed issues with reconnecting when waking from sleep in certain network environments #597
- Fixed issues with and improved speed when autoconnecting accounts at launch
- Fixed issues with messaging Novell GroupWise contacts with spaces #687
- Fixed account reconnection after sleep and improved network connectivity detection #597
- Fixed display of blank buddy icons for certain AOL contacts
- Fixed sending of animated buddy icons smaller than 48x48 over AIM
- Fixed selection of the appropriate chat with unviewed messages when clicking the dock icon to switch to Adium #753
- Fixed detection of invalid password attempts when connecting to MSN #794
- Fixed pasting and inserting links into the message text entry area when the message view itself has focus #148
- Fixed Get Info on Novell GroupWise contacts with spaces #687
- Fixed display of emoticons in the contact list #575
- Fixed display of invalid items in the message window contextual menu #126
- Fixed issues with disabling automatic metacontact creation #250
- Fixed a crash related to setting of an invalid or corrupt buddy icon
- Fixed a crash related to invalid stored message history
- Fixed the Open Message Window action not to grab focus unnecessarily #1032
- Fixed a crash when using the Log Viewer in Swedish
- Enabled ICQ file sending #1076
- Improved updating of serverside buddy icons
- Improved updating of the icon shown by message styles
- Improved password prompt windows #184 #966
- Improved Jabber account preferences #722
- Improved some Applescript support #681 #574 #593
- Improved detection of Yahoo mobile contacts
- Improved performance when connecting multiple accounts simultaneously
- Improved appearance of buddy icons and status/service icons in the contact list when selected. #702
- Improved handling of invalid .AdiumStatusIcons Xtras
- Removed the character limit for Yahoo account names #731
- Allow and ignore hyphens in ICQ names #859
- HR tags are now decoded
- Gadu-Gadu now recognizes invalid password attempts
- Added support for an Invisible state for .AdiumIcon Xtras #482
- Catalan, Czech, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese translation updates
- Added Russian translation
- Updated to meanwhile 0.4.2, gaim-meanwhile 1.2.4
- Updated to Growl 0.7.2
- Updated to libgaim 1.5.0
Version 0.82 (6/17/2005) SVN revision: [12454]
- Added OTR Encryption advanced preferences pane for fingerprint management #5
- Added Ignore / Un-ignore support for all group chats
- Added support for spaces and the plus character in Yahoo! names
- Added support for modifying a saved status before setting it by holding Option when selecting a status
- Added support for adding contacts to your list when they request authorization #2
- Added support for the MSN display name updating to match the last used name when you change it in another client and then sign on with Adium #196
- Added support for pressing enter/return to send a 'blank' IM to reset to the default typing attributes รก la old iChat
- Autoreply is now enabled by default new away messages but disabled for available and invisible messages
- Made the message window and standard contact list unified
- Improved retrieval of AIM buddy icons
- Improved the Play Sound action in the Events preferences #29
- Improved updating of chat names
- Improved Aqua service icons, including a new Gadu-Gadu service icon
- Re-enabled jabber.org automatic registration
- Fixed a crash in the File Transfer Progress Window after removing a file transfer
- Fixed issues causing Adium to prevent system sleep in certain situations #106
- Fixed issues with network connectivity detection
- Fixed issues with unblocking contacts who have been blocked #197
- Fixed issues with white lines at the top and bottom of borderless windows
- Fixed display of Meanwhile available and away messages #105
- Fixed encoding issues when using Yahoo! Japan
- Fixed chats remaining in the Window menu after viewing the Send Later sheet
- Fixed saving of in-window message history for chats open when quitting Adium #71
- Fixed a crash caused by certain invalid HTML links
- Fixed zooming the standard contact list window #81
- Fixed setting the per-user encryption setting via the Get Info window #44
- Fixed issues with sending links over ICQ in certain situations
- Fixed issues with the Get Info shortcut not working when the contact list is selected #137
- Fixed issues with sending line breaks over Bonjour #48
- Fixed issues with automatic compression of bundles/folders for file transfer
- Fixed issues with the Find Buddy by Email window #279
- Fixed contacts in AIM group chats being incorrectly marked as mobile #54
- Fixed issues with sending links in AIM group chats #229
- Fixed the %_uptime script with less than one day of uptime #165
- Fixed a crash when closing group chats #314
- Fixed issues with scripts used in MSN display names being overwritten after reconnecting #326
- Fixed issues with the Custom Status window reconfiguring for a new status of the same type
- Fixed issues with URL handling
- Fixed a leak when switching between To: contacts on differing services within a metaContact
- Fixed responder chain in the New Message prompt #260
- Fixed setting the Offline status state for Auto Away and Fast User Switching
- Fixed issues with inviting Yahoo contacts to chats while joining them via File->Join Group Chat
- Fixed a crash when deleting logs in the Log Viewer
- Fixed "Radioactive Adiumy" and crushed all PNG files to save space #69
- Fixed a rare hang at launch
- Corrected a situation in which it would be possible for Adium to delete saved status states accidentally
- Fixed several memory leaks
- Disabled Crash Reporter for out of date versions of Adium #65
- Added Catalan, Czech, Icelandic, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese, and Swedish translations
- Updated all other translations
- Updated to Growl 0.7
- Updated to libgaim 1.3.1
Version 0.81 (5/6/2005) SVN revision: [11831]
- Added accounts back to the File menu, fixing the Actions submenus in the process
- Added support for tooltips in the Status menu
- Added support for automatic ZIP compression of folders and bundles when they are selected for file transfer
- Improved blocking support
- Improved handling of invalid status icon packs
- Improved the contextual menu choices in the Custom Status status message and autoresponse fields
- Fixed a crash during OTR sessions (German)
- Fixed a crash when changing Soundset or Events preferences on many localizations
- Fixed issues with the Away and Idle dock icon overlays
- Fixed issues with duplicate sounds playing for Message Received and Message Received (Initial) events
- Fixed issues with autoresponse messages changing the sending font
- Fixed issues with the Emoticons submenu not appearing in certain situations
- (Sametime) Fixed a crash when configuring accounts in Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
- (Sametime) Updated to meanwhile-0.4.1 and gaim-meanwhile-1.2.2, adding file transfer support
- Updated Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, and Traditional Chinese translations
Version 0.80 (5/3/2005) SVN revision: [11685]
- Complete Status system rewrite, with support for all status states on all protocols (including Available messages and Invisible status)
- Improved the Events system, with new triggering events, new actions, and per-contact and per-group control over voice and pitch for speech
- Events system now includes support for the Growl popup notification system, with optional automatic Growl installation
- Encrypted instant messaging support via Off-the-Record Messaging
- File transfer interface
- Contact List improvements: Group hiding, type-select, mobile status indication, borderless list movement, and MetaContact creation
- Improved link creation
- Improved Log Viewer
- Improved, expanded, and redesigned preferences and account configuration
- Improved support for sending and receiving colors in messages
- Added Pure Plastic message view; removed some older message views (old views are or will be available on adiumXtras.com)
- Expanded toolbar buttons and improved icon art
- Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese translations
- Removed Tic Tac Toe; see http://mykogames.info for information on the new Myko instant messaging games project
- Added support for custom Service Icon and Status Icon AdiumXtras packs
- Added "Contact Last Seen" information tracking
- Certified OS X 10.4 Tiger compatible
- Protocol-specific changes:
- (AIM) Added support for setting animating buddy icons (drag an appropriate GIF from the Finder)
- (MSN) Added support for initiating MSN multi-user chat
- (ICQ, Jabber) Added support for re-requesting authorization
- (Sametime) Added support for directory lookup and group conferences
- Many, many other bug and leak fixes, performance enhancements, and improvements.
- For a full list of changes, see http://www.adiumx.com/changelogs/Adium0.80-fullchanges.txt
Version 0.77 (2/18/2005)
- Corrected security issue wherein keychain-stored passwords were leaked in memory after retrieval
- Corrected a security issue which could have allowed another user with root access to your machine and specific knowledge of the Adium binary to eXtract instant messaging passwords while Adium was running
- Improved support for decoding of HTML COLOR tags
- Fixed a crash in the Log Viewer in certain situations
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with the Password dialog window
- Fixed issues with the Adium Crash Reporter when running from a path containing spaces
- Improved readability of crash data generated by the Adium Crash Reporter
- (AIM) Fixed a rare crash when connecting
- (AIM) Improved support for Japanese text in AIM group chats
- Updated to libgaim 1.1.3, which corrects 2 security issues (see http://gaim.sf.net/security/)
Version 0.76 (1/30/2005)
- Fixed a crash on load in OS X 10.2.0 through 10.2.6 without Safari
- Fixed a crash on quit in OS X 10.2.x
- Fixed a crash in the Emoticons preferences
- Fixed a crash when loading the Messages preferences in certain situations
- Fixed a crash related to corrupt font files
- Improved Novell GroupWise connection handling to handle invalid password and 'logged on from another workstation' errors
Version 0.75.1 (1/24/2005)
- Fixed a crash when joining a group chat
Version 0.75 (1/23/2005)
- Fixed a crash on launch
- Fixed a long-standing crash when accessing stored passwords
- Fixed a rare lockup condition when sending messages
- Fixed issues with Adium when running on a system with a concurrent Gaim installation
- Fixed issues with group chat members not appearing in certain situations
- Fixed an issue with the fast user switching away message remaining after a relaunch
- Fixed an issue with receiving messages containing certain characters followed by a semicolon
- Fixed an issue with Command-I performing Show Contact's Info instead of Italics in message windows in certain situations
- Improved connection speed, particularly on AIM accounts with long buddy lists
- Updated to libgaim 1.1.2
Version 0.74 (1/5/2005)
- Fixed issues causing newly added contacts to appear twice in certain situations
- Fixed a rare crash when opening the Log Viewer
- Fixed a rare issue causing blank or (null) contacts to appear
- (MSN) Fixed several common crashes introduced in 0.73 via a mistake when updating libgaim
- (Jabber) Fixed several issues with group chat
- (Sametime) Fixed issues with preferences for contacts with '/' in their LDAP strings
- Improved emoticon display in preferences and menus to sort emoticons alphabetically
Version 0.73 (12/26/04)
- Fixed issues with leading/trailing newlines for contact list Extended Status display
- Fixed issues with applescript filters when messaging applications which have been quit and relaunched
- Fixed issues with custom dock icon selections not being reflected in the Finder and the Dock
- Fixed issues with logging messages from Sametime contacts with LDAP strings for usernames
- Fixed issues with the link editor sheet
- Fixed issues with Announcer speaking messages in the message preferences
- Fixed a crash related to Systemwide Proxy Settings in certain situations
- Fixed a potential crash when deleting an account
- Fixed a memory leak
- (AIM) Fixed a crash when canceling file transfers
- (Gadu-Gadu) Fixed a crash when sending certain messages
- (MSN) Fixed issues with idle states
- (Sametime) Fixed issues with away messages and away states
- (Yahoo) Fixed issues with away messages
- Improved date display when receiving queued messages from previous days
- Improved handling of links in the Get Info window
- Improved logging of autoresponses
- Updated to libgaim 1.1.1
Version 0.72 (11/16/2004)
- Fixed major stability issues involving Applescript filters
- Fixed issues with erroneous autolinkification of text with multiple periods
- Fixed issues with automatic away after idle
- Fixed issues with manual ordering of contacts
- Fixed a crash when deleting logs
- Fixed a crash when selecting Undo in the Enter Away Message window
- Fixed a memory leak
- Improved Contact List autosizing
- (AIM) Fixed issues with setting serverside aliases
- (AIM) Fixed issue with _ or @ in screennames
- (Jabber) Fixed issues with rejoining group chats
- (Jabber) Fixed issue with messages appearing gray.
- (Jabber) Fixed issue with % in Jabber IDs
- (Rendezvous) Improved behavior when changing IPs or locations
- (MSN) Fixed a new sporadic crash
- Updated to libgaim 1.0.3
Version 0.71 (11/01/2004)
- Fixed issues with "Systemwide HTTP/SOCKS4/SOCKS5" proxy settings
- Fixed issues with automatic reconnection of accounts after sleeping
- Fixed issues with tooltip display after opening a message window
- Fixed issues with parsing of log dates in certain situations
- Fixed issues with background coloration of events displayed in the Dock
- Fixed issues with running Adium from folders with certain unusual characters
- Fixed issues with spoken text in combination with the "mute while away" option
- Fixed issues with autolinkification of URLs including extended characters
- Fixed issues with the Tic-Tac-Toe game
- Fixed issues with attempting to save Contact List layouts and themes with '/' in their names
- Fixed a crash from malformed Address Book entries
- Fixed a crash when opening a message window with no accounts online
- Improved Log Viewer stability and responsiveness while indexing
- Improved Rendezvous performance
- Updated glib to avoid a potential buffer overflow
- Updated to libgaim 1.0.2
Version 0.70 (10/18/2004)
Services
- Added Rendezvous support (iChat compatible)
- Added Zephyr support (on properly configured machines)
- (MSN) Display names are no longer truncated
- (MSN) Added the option to treat display names as status
- (MSN) Added support for conversation closed and timed-out messages
- (ICQ) Added support for specifying a custom text encoding
- (Jabber) Accounts can now be registered from within Adium
- (Sametime) Added support for server-side list storage
- (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) Added support for viewing profiles
- Added support for gaim's protocol specific /commands
- Corrected several harmless protocol errors
Contact list
- Added user icons, extended status, status icons, and background image support
- Added contact grouping (From the address book or by dragging contacts with option held down)
- Added options for contact list text alignment
- Improved scaling, coloring, and positioning of group triangles
- Improved opacity when using a grid or status coloring
- Improved docking behavior (List now remembers which edge it was docked to)
- Improved snap to edge behavior (Hold down shift while dragging to disable)
- Improved manual ordering behavior, performance, and memory usage
Messages and Chat
- Added support for creating and joining group chats on AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo
- Added an option to apply home and end in the text entry view
- Improved HTML decoding performance
- Improved group chat interface, behavior
- Improved support for displaying message related errors
- Improved behavior of typing notifications
- Improved copy-to-clipboard behavior of the Minimal message style
- Basic file transfer messages (send, receive) now display in the message window
- Updated built in MSN emoticon set to the correct key equivalents
General Performance and Improvements
- Contacts with unviewed content now display in the system menu
- Improved performance of connecting / disconnecting accounts
- Improved dock icon loading performance, preferences performance
- Improved system menu performance
- Improved the stick to edges behavior of the contact list and message window
- Improved behavior of accounts pane in the info window
- Improved network connectivity detection, behavior when waking from sleep and switching networks
- Adium now deletes temporary files on quit
Alerts, Events and Status
- Improved readability of Growl alerts
- Background colors for status and events can now be enabled separately
- Added a Growl Notification for "Message received while in background"
- Added 'New mail received' event
- Added file transfer events to the growl plugin
- Improved behavior of auto-away when idle, away is now automatically removed
- Improved display of status messages with emoticon and link support
Log Viewer
- Added support for searching a single contact's logs by content
- Added support for deleting logs from the log viewer, emoticon display in logs
- Improved log viewer appearance, search feedback, and performance
- Improved display of contact names in the log viewer
Other
- Improved the version checker behavior when a network connection is unavailable
- Improved service menu with dividers and alphabetization
- Improved applescript support
- Updated appearance of info window
- Updated the crash reporter to ignore several harmless errors
- Significant stability and performance improvements
Other Fixes
- Fixed a crash in the notification window for system fonts not supporting bold
- Fixed a crash when a proxy username was entered with the server field left blank
- Fixed a crash when accessing the emoticon menu
- Fixed a crash when adding a contact with no groups defined
- Fixed a crash when adding a send message alert to a group
- Fixed a crash when aliasing a group
- Fixed a crash when attempting to transfer an image over a protocol without support
- Fixed a crash when clicking the status menu duck during launch
- Fixed a crash when closing chat windows
- Fixed a crash when deleting an account
- Fixed a crash when importing omniweb bookmarks
- Fixed a crash when logging in with a proxy server
- Fixed a crash when opening message windows in 10.2 due to message history
- Fixed a crash when resizing a window while it was automatically scrolling to the bottom
- Fixed a crash when the contact list refreshed while being manipulated
- Fixed a crash when typing messages
- Fixed a crash with contact alerts firing as Adium quit
- Fixed a crash with contact list auto-resizing
- Fixed issues with Gaim error message display
- Fixed issues with HTML displaying in request action windows
- Fixed issues with account prefs not updating correctly after being changed
- Fixed issues with alien folders in the log directory confusing the log viewer
- Fixed issues with auto-replies showing up as regular messages to other users
- Fixed issues with chat windows not re-opening on incoming messages
- Fixed issues with chats logging as (null)
- Fixed issues with commas in the last argument of an applescript
- Fixed issues with consecutive spaces not being displayed in messages
- Fixed issues with contacts not leaving the userlist in a chat
- Fixed issues with custom titled links being changed by the auto-linker
- Fixed issues with custom volume being ignored the first time a sound plays
- Fixed issues with dropping files onto the preview conversation in the message preferences
- Fixed issues with entering contact names equal to the max allowed length
- Fixed issues with errors creating Xtras folders in application support
- Fixed issues with file transfer via drag and drop onto the message window
- Fixed issues with font preview fields not displaying the font size
- Fixed issues with group chats showing the wrong status icon in tabs
- Fixed issues with groups displaying a service type in the info window
- Fixed issues with groups not always hiding when empty
- Fixed issues with images displaying upside-down in tooltips and message windows
- Fixed issues with incorrect fonts displaying in the message preferences preview
- Fixed issues with large status icons displaying behind the close button
- Fixed issues with list ordering after a disconnect/reconnect
- Fixed issues with messages not appearing after a date line
- Fixed issues with multiple MSN chats active at once
- Fixed issues with outgoing messages displaying twice in MSN chats
- Fixed issues with preferences opening incorrectly after installing an Xtra
- Fixed issues with re-ordering not applying immediately on the contact list
- Fixed issues with removing idle time via AppleScript
- Fixed issues with scripts in profiles or aways causing a periodic stutter
- Fixed issues with service type being ignored when adding contacts in response to events
- Fixed issues with status changed messages ignoring message view formatting
- Fixed issues with status messages not appearing in some chats
- Fixed issues with tabs drawing incorrectly for group chats
- Fixed issues with the First Message Received event firing for messages besides the first
- Fixed issues with the allowed account name length of Yahoo, .Mac accounts
- Fixed issues with the allowed characters of Novell account names
- Fixed issues with the bookmark toolbar item in text only mode
- Fixed issues with the contact list not sorting correctly
- Fixed issues with the date header appearing in chats with no history
- Fixed issues with the group chat user-list not displaying in certain situations
- Fixed issues with the image picker window displaying icons at the incorrect size
- Fixed issues with the preview conversation being logged
- Fixed issues with tooltips appearing at incorrect times
- Fixed issues with trailing spaces on user names when connecting
- Fixed issues with typing and new content icons not displaying in the window titlebar
- Fixed issues with typing notifications
- Fixed issues with user icons not animating in the info window
- Fixed issues with vertical alignment of status text
- Fixed several major memory leaks
Version 0.63 (7/23/2004)
- Added support for the Sametime protocol
- Adium will no longer unhide when new messages are received
- New message windows now appear behind existing windows
- Improved window position saving when not using tabs
- Added emoticon, edit link, bookmarks, and safari link toolbar items
- Improvements to tab auto-grouping and auto-arranging, including performance and visual improvements
- Improvements to status display when not using tabs. Typing and new content are now displayed in the window titlebar
- User icons no longer animate in the message window, improved user icon updating
- Improved sound code. Better performance, wider support for formats, finer volume control, and output device selection
- Improved typing support. We now correctly support the 'entered text' state that occurs when a user stops typing
- Improved support for installing Xtras. Preferences now update when new Xtras are installed
- Cleaned up contextual menus, window menu
- Added a preference to turn off contact list tooltips
- Aliases can now be set from the add contact window
- Improved and simplified the theme preferences
- The close buttons on tabs now only display when hovered
- Added contact icons to the window menu
- Added service icons to the account preferences, file menu
- Added an Xtras site menu item to Adium menu
- Added an Adium status menu to the menubar (Off by default, check the advanced preferences)
Technical:
- Added support for styles to specify an image mask for user icons
- Optimized emoticon preferences
- Added importer for old custom soundsets
- Added importer for old custom dock behavior
- We now display the status of strangers if it becomes available
- Auto-replies now only send over AIM
Fixes:
- Fixed option-return to correctly insert newlines
- Fixed issue with idle clearing when sending messages
- Fixed issue with sounds not playing if system-wide alerts were disabled
- Fixed an issue with dock bouncing and rapid single bounces
- Fixed an issue with the custom colors sheet in 10.2
- Fixed several link parsing errors
- Fixed an issue with systemwide proxy settings
- Fixed issues with < and > in display names for WebKit
- Fixed issues with %n,%d not processing in auto-replied away messages
- Fixed bug with sort options window resizing
- Fixed issues with the contact list forgetting multiple selections
- Fixed file transfer global contact alerts
- Fixed crash with protocol request dialogs
- Fixed crash loading invalid soundsets
- Fixed crash on file transfer error
- Fixed several theme preference crashes
Version 0.62 (7/06/2004)
- Added many additional options for custom status sorting
- Added global events for file transfer (request, began, complete, canceled)
- Added option for systemwide SOCKS4 support in the account preferences
- Added scripts to the message window contextual menu
- Added support for getting contact info in a multiuser chat
- Added support for Firefox .9 bookmarks
- Improved contact alerts (alerts no longer conflict with normal Adium behavior)
- Improved support for messaging a single contact from multiple accounts
- Improved applescript efficiency
- Improvements to dock bouncing (A lesser bounce will no longer interrupt a greater one)
- Improvements to bookmark importing
- Improvements to server-side note storage
- Improvements to add contact contextual menu
- Cosmetic improvements to account preferences, image picker
- Fixed a serious server-side list syncing issue
- Fixed issue with scaling of MSN avatars
- Fixed issue with contact list not updating
- Fixed issue with tooltips not appearing in certain situations
- Fixed issue with caching of status messages and profiles after a contact disconnects
- Fixed issue with the borderless contact list and multiple monitors
- Fixed issue with emoticon packs and custom emoticon names
- Fixed issue with date display in message history (10.2)
- Fixed issues with using Enter/Return when entering non-english text
- Fixed issues when running under 10.4 developer preview
- Fixed crash with multiuser chats
- Fixed crash with multiuser chats and tab arranging
- Fixed crash when quitting while text is bring spoken
- Fixed crash when clicking animated emoticons in preferences
- Fixed crash in the dock behavior preferences
- Fixed open email button on MSN mail notification
- Fixed an applescript encoding issue
- Updated Yahoo emoticons
- Performance improvements
Version 0.61 (6/25/2004)
- Added support for MSN Buddy Icons
- Added support for Yahoo! Buddy Icons
- Added support for editing an account's Buddy Icon (for AIM, MSN, and Yahoo!)
- Added support for MSN File Transfer (to/from Windows Official MSN and LibGaim-based MSN clients such as Adium)
- Added support for idle status for MSN contacts
- Added status icons to tabs (Replacing the text coloring used previously)
- Added a toolbar to the message window
- Removed the 'orphans' group (Adium no longer adds strangers to the contact list)
- Improvements to 'Show offline contacts' menu item
- Improvements to message view contextual menus
- Improvements to scripting
- Improvements to installing Xtras
- Improvements to HTML support
- Improvements to error handling
- Improvements to file transfer
- Improvements to the 'Add Contact' panel
- Improvements to formatted message sending via Novell GroupWise
- Fixed Yahoo! authentication problems (care of Cerulean Studios)
- Fixed several major connection related issues
- Fixed Yahoo! Japan encoding issues
- Fixed issue with Jabber presence not displaying on connect
- Fixed issue with recognition of ICQ authorizations
- Fixed issue with the announcer preferences
- Fixed issue with encoding on Yahoo! Japan
- Fixed issue with speaking status messages
- Fixed issue with contact list getting stuck under the toolbar/window titlebar
- Fixed issue with contacts losing their display names when moving between groups
- Fixed issue with the group menu in the 'Add Contact' panel
- Fixed issue with the 'delete' contextual menu item on tabs
- Fixed issue with send file context menu on inactive tabs
- Fixed issue with the enter away window not closing with cmd-w
- Fixed date format to be properly localized in the About window and in tooltips
- Fixed a crash when closing message windows in certain situations
- Fixed a crash when pasting large amounts of text into the message window
- Fixed a crash on quit
- Performance improvements
- Launch time improvements
Version 0.60 (6/16/2004)
- Added script for inserting an iTunes link for the playing song
- Info window now shows to which accounts a contact has been added
- Bookmark menu now only shows bookmarks for the default web browser
- New format for emoticon packs (old packs will be upgraded automatically)
- New format for scripts to improve launch time (old scripts will no longer work)
- Improvements to contact alerts
- Improvements to goim://, ymsgr:// link support
- Fixed issue with display of consecutive messages
- Fixed issue with the emoticon menu inserting the incorrect emoticon text
- Fixed issue with overlays on downloaded dock icons
- Fixed issue with the info window image picker
- Fixed issue with alphabetical sort
- Fixed issue with the safari script
- Fixed issue with links in 10.2
- Fixed crash when receiving messages, opening message windows
- Fixed crash caused by invalid dock icon packs
- Fixed crash in the edit link window
- Fixed crash in gadu-gadu connection preferences
- Fixed crash in the alerts pane of the info window
- Fixed jabber crash when connecting
- Fixed additional crashes on launch
- Several other crash fixes and improvements
Version 0.59 (6/11/2004)
- Added support for changing user icons via the Get Info window
- Added preferences for tab switching hotkeys
- Restored Cmd-I shortcut for Get Info window
- Restored Get Info toolbar icon
- Improved link detection
- Improved HTML support
- Improved user icon caching
- Improved server-side alias and notes storage
- Fixed several crashes/freezes on launch
- Fixed several bugs with tabs disappearing, message windows not opening
- Fixed an issue with saving away messages
- Fixed an issue with consecutive emoticons not appearing
- Fixed issue with tab text coloring
- Fixed issue with text colors bleeding in profiles/messages
- Fixed issue with crash reporter (on systems with GNU fileutils installed)
- Fixed issue with safari scripts for users who've uninstalled safari
- Fixed issue with away messages sending in chat rooms
- Fixed issue with the WebKit 'name format' preference
- Fixed crash when deleting emoticons, dock icons
- Fixed crash on quit
- Fixed crash closing message window, preferences
- Fixed crash when denying a file transfer
- Fixed crash in 10.2 message display preferences
- Many other small fixes and improvements
Version 0.58 (6/04/2004)
- Added support for server-side AIM buddy comments
- Added support for server-side AIM and Novell buddy aliases
- Added automatic use of Safari, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Camino, FireFox, and OmniWeb bookmarks
- Added "new mail" notification support for Yahoo! and MSN
- Added ability to group chat tabs by contact list groups
- Added ability to delete emoticon and dock X(tras) from their preference panes
- Added "Connect All" and "Disconnect All" items to the Dock menu
- Added %_safari script substitution to return the currently active webpage
- Combined the Alerts, Info, and Inspector into a single 'Get Info' window
- Improved AIM DirectIM (IM Image) support
- Improved Gadu-Gadu support
- Improved event notifications
- Improved installation of X(tras)
- Improved preference panes
- Improved the Standard Message View (Jaguar only)
- Improved the Mockie message style, including fixing issues in very wide windows
- Improved the Simple message style
- Improved support for animated buddy icons (Panther only)
- Improved handling of aim://goim links
- Fixed many MSN bugs, including a crash when dragging contacts between groups and a problem using HTTP Connect Method
- Fixed a crash when joining a multiuser chat
- Fixed several issues with messages sent from or to ICQ users
- Fixed a bug where shorter emoticons could mask larger ones
- Fixed a crash while dragging emoticon packs
- Fixed a crash when displaying error messages
- Fixed a crash when clicking poorly formed aim://goim links
- Fixed an occasional crash when opening a contextual menu in a message window
- Fixed a bug with keeping chat tabs sorted and improved sorting performance when sorting by status
- Fixed a bug with fetching AIM profiles
- Fixed several issues related to reconnection
- Fixed issues with links containing ampersands
- Fixed pasting into message windows when the text entry field was inactive
- Fixed date stamps in message windows to properly respect systemwide international preferences
- Fixed multiple memory leaks
- Many other small fixes and improvements
Version 0.57 (5/21/2004)
- Added contact notes
- Added delete contact contextual menu item
- Added support for addBuddy links
- Added support for request add contact panels
- Added an advanced preference for keeping tabs sorted
- Updated the allowed characters and lengths for several protocols
- Updated several message view styles
- Updated appearance of message window history
- Improved performance and reduced beach-balling, especially on slow networks
- Improved behavior of dragging groups on the contact list
- Improved group counting when offline contacts are visible
- Improved link editing
- Improved automatic link recognition
- Improved support for seeing jabber status changes
- Improved recognition of several HTML tags
- Improved response to being knocked off by another login
- Cleaned up emoticon preferences
- Fixed issue with HTML sending to MSN users
- Fixed issue with MSN display names, AIM name formatting not displaying
- Fixed issue with multiple message tabs being created
- Fixed issues with the contact list not remembering manual order
- Fixed several cases where text would be incorrectly turned into a link
- Fixed issue with message formatting resetting after sending a message
- Fixed issue with receiving pasted content from iChat
- Fixed emoticons displaying upside-down in the preferences
- Fixed a bug causing auto-scroll to always happen on receiving messages
- Fixed a bug with scripts being executed in other peoples profiles
- Fixed a bug causing some message text to appear green instead of black
- Fixed an issue with re-ordering away messages
- Fixed crashes caused by poorly formed dock icon packs
- Fixed an issue preventing mobile and ICQ service types from showing up
- Fixed issues with auto-resizing not sticking to the bottom of the screen
- Fixed issues with clicking AIM sub-profile links (links containing %n)
- Fixed the 'other...' option for custom sound alerts
- Fixed message view scrollbar positioning
- Fixed an issue with toolbar menu items not dimming
- Fixed an issue with the contact list selecting the first contact when opened
- Fixed an issue with the version checker falsely reporting new releases
- Fixed several memory leaks
Version 0.56 (5/14/2004)
- Added 'Insert Emoticon' to the Edit menu, contextual menus
- Added support for viewing the correct status of yahoo contacts
- Improved Event Notifications (Formerly Event Bezel), available globally or as a contact alert.
- Improved Message View preferences
- Restored the 'New Message' toolbar item
- Fixed a crash when selecting a custom message color
- Fixed a crash when deleting contacts
- Fixed a crash on launch under 10.2
- Fixed an issue with offline contacts not appearing after a disconnect
- Fixed an issue causing profile formatting to reset
- Fixed an issue with LaTeX operations containing \;
- Fixed an issue with pasting text into the link editor
- Fixed an issue with contact name format displaying incorrectly on launch
- Fixed a beach-balling issue
- Fixed several memory leaks
Version 0.55 (5/8/2004)
- Fixed a crash when connecting to a Yahoo account with privacy settings enabled
- Fixed formatting when sending messages to oneself via MSN
- Fixed a crash when editing links that are in the view at load time
- Fixed emoticon pack loading to ignore empty packs
- Fixed a bug preventing Jabber names with "-" in them from connecting
- Fixed a crash when quitting while a tooltip is visible
- Fixed a bug causing passwords to be cleared unnecessarily, particularly when network errors occurred while connecting
- Disabled dragging web links into the message view
- Added advanced WebKit Message View preferences, which currently allow the customization of the contact name display in the message view.
- Improved menu performance
Version 0.54 (5/7/2004)
- Added support for displaying strikethrough, subscript, and superscript text
- Added support for basic formatting in MSN messages
- Added an option when sorting by status to sort within the status groups alphabetically by last name
- Consecutive messages are no longer combined after a 5 minutes of inactivity in the chat
- Enabled user-sent colors in the Message View
- Drastically reworked the web viewer for the SQL Logger.
- Adding new message styles no longer requires restarting Adium
- Fixed group dragging
- Fixed the remaining problems with tooltips appearing unnecessarily
- Fixed WebKit Message View for Japanese and Chinese users (the fix in 0.53 was incomplete)
- Fixed Retro message style and added bubbleless variants, completing the classic Adium message view kit
- Fixed issues related to custom links
- Fixed a cosmetic issue as the contact list loaded
- Fixed a bug which caused colors in messages to be sent improperly (broken in 0.53)
- Fixed AIM file sending (broken in 0.53)
- Fixed Gadu-Gadu, Jabber, and Trepia account preferences to include password, server, and proxy fields (addition in 0.53 was incomplete)
- Fixed the "Other..." option when creating a custom sound alert for a contact
- Fixed a freeze when sending MSN messages containing certain characters including ampersand (&)
- Fixed AIM .Mac support to allow email address screennames with underscores
- Improved the add contact window
- Improved the password prompt window
- Improved Novell GroupWise protocol support
- Significant performance improvements, particularly during sign on
Version 0.53 (4/30/2004)
- Added WebKit Message View (6 distinct styles, or create your own! Customizable fonts and backgrounds!) [10.3 only]
- Added "Novell GroupWise" protocol support
- Added "Yahoo! Japan" protocol support
- Added support for custom link titles (Edit->Add Link)
- Added support for message sending via aim:goim URLs
- Added support for placing contact list below all other windows
- Added support for deleting emoticon packs
- Added an 'add contact' menu item for message tabs
- Added the ability to cancel connecting accounts
- Added support for deleting multiple contacts simultaneously
- Added hourly level preferences for message history
- Added custom hyperlink insertion and editing
- Added the ability to add messages sent to offline contacts as alerts
- Added proxy and server connection preferences for "GroupWise," "Trepia," "Gadu-Gadu," and "Napster" protocols
- Updated /music script to work with Internet streams
- Improved the 'Add Contact' window
- Improved appearance of source list gradients
- Improved error handling for all services
- Improved detection of URLs for autolinking
- Improved behavior when reconnecting accounts
- Improved appearance of Password Prompt window
- Cleaned up alert interface in preparation for upcoming changes to 'Get Info' window.
- Cleaned up address book integration advanced preferences
- Cleaned up sound preferences
- Cleaned up contact list name display format preferences (moved to the View menu)
- Fixed several MSN crashes [libgaim]
- Fixed several issues related to tooltips appearing at improper times
- Fixed a crash when arranging away messages
- Fixed odd behavior and crashes in Alert window
- Fixed an issue with dropping text on message tabs
- Fixed an issue with apostrophes on Jabber
- Fixed an issue with 'first message received' sounds not playing
- Fixed an issue with the version checker falsely reporting new releases
- Fixed an issue preventing the version checker from saying how old the current version is
- Fixed cosmetic issue with away message menu
- Fixed an issue with the contact list position when a multiscreen configuration changed
- Fixed an issue causing Away autoresponses to be sent in response to other users' autoresponses
- Fixed several memory leaks
- Fixed an SQL Logger crash when opening the preferences
- Fixed an SQL Logger issue with the same screenname on multiple services.
- Fixed a bug with Japanese and Chinese text in the WebKit message view
- Scripts, themes, and sounds can be put in all three Library/Application Support folders (Home/L/AS/Adium 2.0, /L/AS/Adium 2.0, and /Network/L/AS/Adium 2.0).
- Scripts, themes, sounds in the Adium application bundle no longer override those in the Application Support folders
- Performance and launch time improvements
- Decreased binary size
Version 0.52 (4/16/2004)
- Message windows now display a customizable number of lines from the previous conversation when opened
- Added proxy connect options to Yahoo! accounts
- Added proxy connect, host, port, connect via, resource, and encryption options to Jabber accounts
- Added the option to play sounds using the system specified Output Device for System Alerts
- Fixed Jabber message sending and receiving (formatting is not yet supported)
- Fixed MSN and Yahoo reconnect behavior to not attempt a reconnect if you sign on from another location
- An attempt to connect with an invalid password now re-prompts for a correct password
- ICQ contacts and accounts are now differentiated from AIM contacts in tooltips and the account lists, respectively
- Fixed address book integration for contacts with spaces in their screennames
- Fixed retrieval of AIM away messages and profiles which contain non-Roman characters
- Fixed autocompletion in the New Message window
- Fixed issues related to the applescript-based substitutions
- Fixed problems related to idle messages
- Fixed problems related to status-based tab coloration
- Fixed vertical resize behavior when deleting groups or when groupless contacts sign on or off
- Fixed a crash when editing saved away messages
- Fixed a crash when deleting a new account
- Fixed a crash when dragging text across the message window tabs
- Fixed a crash if an improperly formed emoticon pack was installed
- Fixed a crash when going away automatically after a certain amount of time idle.
- Fixed a crash if an invalid move was attempted in games
- Fixed several crashes specific to running in OS X 10.2
- Version checker now informs the user if the attempt to check for the latest version failed
- No longer show a blank profile when an AIM account attempts to get the profile of an AOL account (which can not be done)
- Speed improvements: launch time, creation of new accounts
- Cosmetic improvements to the account preferences
Version 0.51 (4/08/2004)
- Adium now works in 10.2 (Fixed crash on launch in 10.2)
- Fixed a crash when opening preference window
- Fixed a crash in the theme preferences
- Fixed resizing issues with the advanced preferences
- Fixed a crash in the contact alert window
- Fixed a crash when completing file transfers
- Cleaned up the 'auto-away' preferences
Version 0.50 (4/06/2004)
- Initial Release