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author | Jeffrey Connelly <jaconnel@calpoly.edu> |
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date | Wed, 30 May 2007 02:56:25 +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 2.0.1 (5/24/2007): | |
4 Sean: 2.0.1! Three weeks later, as scheduled! It is so nice to have | |
5 regular, frequent, releases again! This is a bugfix release; We have | |
6 fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im. | |
7 Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release | |
8 in another three weeks! | |
9 | |
10 Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this. I don't know how you users find so many | |
11 things for us to fix. 24 hours in a day (sadly). 24 is divisible by the | |
12 sum of its digits and by their product. It is the smallest composite | |
13 number, the product of whose divisors is a cube. | |
14 | |
15 Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have! | |
16 Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been | |
17 submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should | |
18 all have a much more stable experience with this release. I also | |
19 want to thank the many users who have resubmitted their reports | |
20 as we close out the old Source Forge bug tracker. If all goes well, | |
21 your report will get the attention it deserves as we continue to | |
22 work on Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple. | |
23 | |
24 Nathan: A ton of fixes have gone into this release. The feedback | |
25 we've gotten on 2.0.0 has been incredible. Hopefully we've resolved | |
26 most of the critical issues with 2.0.1. If we haven't, I'm sure | |
27 our wonderful users will let us hear about it. I seem to be | |
28 forgetting something...oh, right, I haven't promised any cool new | |
29 features in the next release! So, I promise at least one cool new | |
30 feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your | |
31 definition of 'cool' to get it. | |
32 | |
33 Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus | |
34 API functions. I also removed a couple of the preferences from the | |
35 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people | |
36 for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem. The removed | |
37 preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway. | |
38 | |
39 2.0.0 (5/3/2007): | |
40 Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm | |
41 really proud of all the work we've all done. I'm pumped. And, while | |
42 I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since | |
43 1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular, | |
44 rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal | |
45 quandries. Huge thanks to everyone involved. | |
46 | |
47 Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly | |
48 but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration. No one regrets more | |
49 than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release. | |
50 But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal | |
51 state. There were many tough calls to be made in the last 2 years. | |
52 Not everyone has agreed with the resulting decisions, that is un- | |
53 fortunate, but unavoidable. Suffice it to say that despite what | |
54 some users appear to think, a ton of thought, argument, discussion, | |
55 and experimentation has gone into this release. This release | |
56 builds on many years of experience, both as developers writing the | |
57 code, users using it, and in supporting other users. I hope that | |
58 those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and | |
59 attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions. | |
60 | |
61 Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except | |
62 this is hardly one small step. A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0 | |
63 than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole | |
64 new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born, | |
65 and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library | |
66 powering the greatest IM clients around. Bugs were fixed and | |
67 features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last | |
68 major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature | |
69 creep. As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into | |
70 Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part. | |
71 | |
72 Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0. It's been a long time coming, | |
73 but there's a great deal of goodness here. When I say a long time, I'm | |
74 not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus" | |
75 (aka 1.x). The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a | |
76 number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning | |
77 and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development | |
78 period). 2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also | |
79 the first deficient number (oh well). There are only 10 types of people | |
80 in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not. | |
81 Enjoy! | |
82 | |
83 Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and | |
84 I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule. | |
85 Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things | |
86 where they are today. Congratulations everyone! | |
87 | |
88 Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally | |
89 released!! And it's *really* very good!!! Give your soul a break ... | |
90 Use Pidgin! | |
91 | |
92 Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth | |
93 due to the delays in getting this beast out. I'm really happy that it | |
94 is done. I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is | |
95 far more stable, packed with useful features and, dare I say, prettier | |
96 than any previous release. | |
2 | 97 |
3 2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007): | 98 2.0.0beta7 (4/29/2007): |
4 Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For | 99 Sean: Beta 7. The final beta. A few major changes from beta6. For |
5 starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new | 100 starters, we have some new names. That's pretty cool. We have a new |
6 logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions | 101 logo, to go along with it. And a lot of great icons! As Nathan mentions |
49 the improvements that go along with it. I'd like to extend a | 144 the improvements that go along with it. I'd like to extend a |
50 special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues | 145 special thanks to Sean, for leading us through the legal issues |
51 and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one | 146 and taking care of all of the paperwork and overhead that no one |
52 wants to deal with. | 147 wants to deal with. |
53 | 148 |
54 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2006): | 149 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2007): |
55 Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be | 150 Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be |
56 the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI | 151 the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI |
57 changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other | 152 changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other |
58 goodness. | 153 goodness. |
59 | 154 |