version 0.76 (04/01/2004): New Features: * WYSIWYG text input (with much help from Gary Kramlich and Kevin Stange) * Ability to be invisible on AIM * Chatroom list support (Tim Ringenbach) * Added auto-completion for screen names to the New Instant Message and Get User Info dialogs. * Non-ascii character support in AIM chats (Uli Luckas and Marco Ziech) * Vastly improved browser opening, with tab support! (Nathan Fredrickson) * 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 (Tim Ringenbach) * Improved local IP address detection (Tim Ringenbach) * Offline accounts in account drop-down lists are now greyed (Etan Reisner) * 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) * Jabber file transfer * 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 Bug Fixes: * 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 clicking Modify. * 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 consideration. * 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 (Gary Kramlich) * 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) Dont forget that gaim dev dont like gentoo users ! :)
For future reference, I spend most of my life in #gaim and monitor their sf.net releases so there is no need to notify me of releases. I do appreciate the concern though. gaim-0.76 is now in portage. No CJK patch for now. Also I've abandoned the Gentoo branding patch that chutzpah and I were playing around with in 0.75-r11. More trouble than it was worth.
