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[gaim-migrate @ 396] Updated the version #'s for 0.9.20 committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author Rob Flynn <gaim@robflynn.com>
date Sat, 10 Jun 2000 21:53:48 +0000
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1 -=[ GAIM ]=- The Pimpin' Penguin AIM Clone That's Good For The Soul!
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3 0.9.20:
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5 0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
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6 Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
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7 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
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8 PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
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10 All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
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11 in this version of gaim. The user interface changes will wait until
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12 the 0.9.20 release. We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
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13 and major bug fix" release. All/Most major bugs should be worked out
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14 now. We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
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15 stored on the server was null. Oops! We won't let it happen again,
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16 we promise.
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18 Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
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19 had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
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20 didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
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21 bugfixes out.
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23 Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
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24 as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
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25 you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
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26 we're probably not going to respond well.
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28 Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
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29 agree with Eric. Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
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30 a polite manner always yields the best results. Peace all, and
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31 happy hacking.
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33 0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
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34 Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh! We're going
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35 insane. Ya know, I'm not too happy with the GAIM UI. I dont know
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36 how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul. In the
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37 next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
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38 up with an improved interface. I hope you all enjoy it. It'll
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39 include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.
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41 And -- for your random silly message of the day --
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43 "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
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44 I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"
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46 - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.
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48 Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
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49 actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
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50 Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.
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52 Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
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53 the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
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54 to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
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55 fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
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56 next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
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57 do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
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58 can feel it....)
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60 And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
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61 you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
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62 cherries are damn good.
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64 0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
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65 Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
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66 (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
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67 and responding to all of them immediately)
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69 I am stupid.
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71 Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
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72 times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
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73 this one.
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75 Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it right, would we? :-)
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77 0.9.16;
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78 Rob: Blah Blah Blah.
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80 Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
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81 instead :)
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83 There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
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84 being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
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85 so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
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86 release, so check out the ChangeLog.
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88 Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.
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90 Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.
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92 0.9.15:
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93 Hey boy's and girls. There's not much to say here this time.
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94 We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great. We just
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95 got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
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96 smooth. Life's pretty sweet now.
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98 We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15. There's
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99 some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
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100 wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
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101 well. Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website. Come up with a sweet
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102 design and get in touch with me. The current site is at:
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103 http://www.marko.net/gaim
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105 Thanks much!
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108 0.9.14:
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109 Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
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110 a little suprise. You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins! Happy
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111 hacking!
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113 0.9.13:
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114 Not much to say for this release. Bug fixes, That's all. Look
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115 for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
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116 released very soon now.
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118 By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge. Go check
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119 it out at http://www.sourceforge.net. Please check there before submitting
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120 any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
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121 problems).
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124 Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
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125 TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
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126 else you use). A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
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127 fixed. My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
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128 those babies out. A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
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129 really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
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130 He submitted patch after patch. I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
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131 and gave him CVS access. Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
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132 That's about all for now. I wanted to get this release out there. File Receive
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133 support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.
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136 Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy! Whee!
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137 Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
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138 a new configuration format for GAIM. Looks like we're running .gaimrc
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139 version 1 now. Gotta love it. I got bored and hacked in a couple font
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140 properties that will, in time, contain more features. That's about it
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141 for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed. Shush! We're
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142 not plumbers! -- rob
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143
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144 ** Extra special update **
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146 Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
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147 and took up a new job. Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
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148 worn off on us yet. I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
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149 development ont he prohect. Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
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150 the project. Sorry about that, guys :)
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151
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152 0.9.10:
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153 Umm. Dont ask. Silly memory leak. For those of you who
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154 wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
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155 person you have on your contact list. Make fun of us. Better yet ..
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156 Send us beer. We'll do better :)
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158 0.9.9:
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159 Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
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160 problems with GAIM working properly, please check out the FAQ file. It
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161 contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users. I hope this works for
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162 you guys!
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163 Jim appears to have intoxicated himself. This is, as always, a
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164 Good Thing (tm). His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
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165 lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'. Dont
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166 ask, just try it out :). It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
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167 connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
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168 There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
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169 bug fixes. Check'em out yo :)
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171 0.9.8:
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172 Get Along Lil' Doggies. Heh. Looks like we have yet another new
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173 version of gaim for you guys to play with. Be gentle now, it has a few
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174 new fetures. The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
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175 HTTP proxy support.
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176 Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
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177 with this release. We are all a little bit happy tonight. You must love
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178 life. This is a special release of gaim. We will be releasing some wonderful
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179 photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
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180 will take a couple of quick snapshots.
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181 Looks like the GAIM developers convention (cool name huh) that we
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182 had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :). yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
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183 by the way. Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli. Bad things.
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184 In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
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185 one pound hamburger that he ordered. (I think he could have done it but he
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186 wasn't feeling very well at the time).
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187 Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
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188 Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
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189 we had expected during the Gaim Convention. Maybe we partied too much? I am
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190 not sure. I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
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191 Oh well. Here's your release! Enjoy!
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192 By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
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193 http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/ They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
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194 enjoy them! :).
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196 0.9.7:
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197 Well, boys and girls, it's that time again! Yup, time for the good
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198 release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
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199 Umm, yeah, something like that. Anyways, this release has several little
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200 "bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
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201 other features. It also features preliminary oscar support. Thanks to Jim
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202 and Adam ("the libfaim guy") hehe :) We have also corrected a problem with
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203 gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
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204 in it. Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem. ' and \
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205 have also been fixed in passwords. :o)
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207 0.9.6:
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208 Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release. Rob
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209 is stupid. :). Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
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210 have been added. I hope you guys enjoy.
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212 0.9.5:
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213 Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
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214 small buggie fixes too.) If you need a detailed list just check out the
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215 ChangeLog. We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
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216 distribution. Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
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217 look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
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218 Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
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219 learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions. Hmm
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220 gotta love those pranks, eh?
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222 0.8.0:
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223 Well, just starting the NEWS file. I'll try to remember what's new
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224 from the last version. Hmmm. BIG code reorg. Import/export, buddy pounce
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225 among the major new features. Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
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226 Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
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227 promise, the next version! This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
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228 want to get it out there.
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