comparison ChangeLog @ 31449:1c660ba17ba1

propagate from branch 'im.pidgin.pidgin' (head 6f879669a6513a5c40335bbaefe842389a92b39e) to branch 'im.pidgin.cpw.qulogic.cairo' (head 4ab0199887f74442673fd46dcbb662bc7f070bc4)
author Marcus Lundblad <ml@update.uu.se>
date Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:30:12 +0000
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1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul 1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
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3 version 2.7.4 (MM/DD/YYYY): 3 version 2.7.6 (??/??/????):
4 MSN:
5 * Added support for MSNP16, including Multiple Points of Presence (MPOP)
6 which allows multiple simultaneous sign-ins.
7 * Added extended capabilities support (none implemented).
8 * Merged the work done on the Google SoC (major rewrite of SLP code)
9 * Reworked the data transfer architecture.
10 (http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/SlpArchitecture)
11 * Lots of little changes.
12
13 XMPP:
14 * Avoid a double-free in the Google Relay (V/V) code.
15 * Avoid double error message when failing a file transfer. (#12757)
16
17 version 2.7.5 (10/31/2010):
18 General:
19 * Added Verisign Class 3 Public CA - G2 root CA.
20
21 Pidgin:
22 * Properly differentiate between bn and bn_IN in the Translation
23 Information dialog.
24
25 AIM and/or ICQ:
26 * Display the "Authorize buddy?" minidialog when the requestor has an
27 empty nickname. (#12810)
28 * New ICQ accounts default to proper ICQ servers. Old accounts using one
29 of the old default servers will be silently migrated to use the proper
30 servers.
31 * ICQ accounts using clientLogin now use the correct ICQ servers. This is
32 separate from the server settings mentioned above.
33 * '<' should no longer cause ICQ status messages to be truncated in some
34 locations. (#11964, #12593)
35 * Fix sending messages to chat rooms. (#12768)
36
37 Bonjour:
38 * Don't crash when attempting to log into a Bonjour account and init
39 failed.
40
41 Windows-Specific Changes:
42 * Quote the path stored in the registry when the "run at startup" option
43 in the Windows Pidgin Options plugin is used. (#12781)
44
45 version 2.7.4 (10/20/2010):
4 General: 46 General:
5 * Fix search path for Tk when compiling on Debian Squeeze. (#12465) 47 * Fix search path for Tk when compiling on Debian Squeeze. (#12465)
48 * purple-remote now expects and produces UTF-8. (Guillaume Brunerie)
49 (#12049)
50 * Add Deutsche Telekom, Thawte Primary, and Go Daddy Class 2 root CAs
51 (#12667, #12668, and #12594)
52 * Fix CVE-2010-3711 by properly validating return values from the
53 purple_base64_decode() function before using them.
54 * Fix two local crash bugs by properly validating return values from the
55 purple_base16_decode() function before using them.
56
57 libpurple:
58 * Fall back to an ordinary request if a UI does not support showing a
59 request with an icon. Fixes receiving MSN file transfer requests
60 including a thumbnail in Finch. (#12561)
61 * Fix an invalid memory access when removing UPnP mappings that could
62 cause sporadic crashes, most notably when MSN Direct Connections are
63 enabled. (#12387)
64 * Add a sentence to the certificate warning for expired certificates
65 suggesting the user check their computer's date and time. (#12654)
66
67 Pidgin:
68 * Add support for the Gadu-Gadu protocol in the gevolution plugin to
69 provide Evolution integration with contacts with GG IDs. (#10709)
70 * Remap the "Set User Mood" shortcut to Control-D, which does not
71 conflict with the previous shortcut for Get Buddy Info on the
72 selected buddy.
73 * Add a plugin action menu (under Tools) for the Voice and Video
74 Settings plugin.
75 * Use GRegex for the debug window where available. This brings regex
76 filtering to the debug window on Windows. (Eion Robb) (#12601)
77 * Add Google Chrome to the list of possible browsers on non-Windows
78 systems.
79 * Add Chromium to the list of possible browsers on non-Windows systems.
80 * The "Manual" browser option is now stored as a string. It is no
81 longer necessary to specify a full path to the browser command.
82 (Rodrigo Tobar Carrizo) (#12024)
83 * The Send To menu can now be used if the active account in the
84 conversation becomes disabled or inactive. (Keith Moyer) (#12471)
85 * xdg-open is now the default browser for new users on non-Windows
86 platforms. (Stanislav Brabec) (#12505)
87 * The "Authorize buddy?" mini-dialog now shows the nickname of
88 the buddy requesting authorization as well as the icon of
89 the IM protocol he is using. (#5038)
90
91 Finch:
92 * Add support for drop-down account options (like the SILC cipher
93 and HMAC options or the QQ protocol version).
94
95 XMPP:
96 * Unify the connection security-related settings into one dropdown.
97 * Fix a crash when multiple accounts are simultaneously performing
98 SASL authentication when built with Cyrus SASL support. (thanks
99 to Jan Kaluza) (#11560)
100 * Restore the ability to connect to XMPP servers that do not offer
101 Stream ID. (#12331)
102 * Added support for using Google's relay servers when making voice and
103 video calls to Google clients.
104 * Fix detecting file transfer proxies advertised by the server.
105 * Advertise support for Google Talk's JID Domain Discovery extension
106 in all cases again (changed in 2.7.0), not just when the domain
107 is "gmail.com" or "googlemail.com" (it's also needed for Google
108 Talk used for accounts on arbitrary domains not using Google Apps
109 for Your Domain). (#a14153)
110 * Improved handling of adding oneself to your buddy list when using
111 Non-SASL (legacy) authentication. (#12499)
112 * Generate a connection error instead of just stalling when the
113 _xmppconnect TXT record returns results, but none of them result
114 in a valid BOSH URI. (#a14367, #12744)
115
116 AIM and ICQ:
117 * Add support for managing Visible/Invisible lists. (#10967)
118 * Fix a problem with receiving HTML messages from
119 QIP/Miranda/Trillian. (#12044)
120 * Hopefully fixed all encoding-related problems, both
121 for sending and receiving messages. (#10833 and the like)
122 * Fix a problem with receiving messages from pyicqt. (#12284)
123 * Don't set a custom status text when going Invisible to avoid
124 being detected as Invisible. (#10633)
125
126 Yahoo/Yahoo JAPAN:
127 * Stop doing unnecessary lookups of certain alias information. This
128 solves deadlocks when a given Yahoo account has a ridiculously large
129 (>500 buddies) list and may improve login speed for those on slow
130 connections. (#12532)
131 * Fix sending SMS messages. The lookup host changed on us. (Thanks to
132 todo) (#12688).
133 * Improvements for some file transfer scenarios, but not all.
134
135 Windows:
136 * Bonjour support now requires Apple Bonjour Print Services version
137 2.0.0 or newer (http://support.apple.com/kb/dl999).
6 138
7 version 2.7.3 (08/10/2010): 139 version 2.7.3 (08/10/2010):
8 General: 140 General:
9 * Use silent build rules for automake >1.11. You can enable verbose 141 * Use silent build rules for automake >1.11. You can enable verbose
10 builds with the --disable-silent-rules configure option, or using 142 builds with the --disable-silent-rules configure option, or using