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propagate from branch 'im.pidgin.pidgin' (head eb9385f349a20856b9d3f9911dbc8024caa44052) to branch 'im.pidgin.pidgin.next.minor' (head 439fb2dd7a285d9ca645f65f36ef0f037abe7311)
author Elliott Sales de Andrade <qulogic@pidgin.im>
date Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:46:04 +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
2 2
3 version 2.7.0 (??/??/????): 3 version 2.7.0 (??/??/????):
4 4
5 version 2.6.0 (??/??/2009): 5 version 2.6.1 (??/??/2009):
6 General: 6 XMPP:
7 * Prompt the user before cancelling a presence subscription.
8
9 version 2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
10 libpurple:
7 * Theme support in libpurple thanks to Justin Rodriguez's summer of code 11 * Theme support in libpurple thanks to Justin Rodriguez's summer of code
8 project. With some minor additions and clean ups from Paul Aurich. 12 project, with some minor additions and cleanups from Paul Aurich.
13 * Voice & Video framework in libpurple, thanks to Mike Ruprecht's summer
14 of code project in 2008.
15 * It should no longer be possible to end up with duplicates of buddies
16 in a group on the buddy list.
17 * Removed the unmaintained and unneeded toc protocol plugin.
18 * Fixed NTLM authentication on big-endian systems.
19 * Various memory cleanups when unloading libpurple. (Nick Hebner and
20 Stefan Becker)
21 * Report idle time 'From last message sent' should work properly.
22 * Better handling of corrupt certificates in the TLS Peers cache.
23 * More efficient buddy list and conversation search functions.
24 (Jan Kaluza and Aman Gupta)
25 * Install scalable versions of the main Pidgin icon, the protocol icons,
26 the dialog icons, and the Buddy List emblems.
27 * Build properly on Hurd. (Marc Dequènes)
28 * Various memory leaks fixed as reported by Josh Mueller.
29 * Properly handle an IRC buddy appearing in multiple groups.
30 * Escape HTML entities in usernames when written with the HTML logger.
31 * Do not display MySpace status changes as incoming IMs. (Mark Doliner and
32 Justin Williams)
33
34 DNS:
35 * DNS servers are re-read when DNS queries fail in case the system has
36 moved to a new network and the old servers are not accessible.
37 * DNS SRV records with equal priority are sorted with respect to their
38 weight as specified in RFC 2782. (Vijay Raghunathan)
39 * Don't do IPv6 address lookups if the computer does not have an IPv6
40 address configured.
41 * Fix a leak when the UI provides its own DNS resolving UI op.
42 (Aman Gupta)
43 * Don't fork a DNS resolver process to resolve IP addresses. (Aman Gupta)
44 * Internationalized Domain Names are supported when libpurple is compiled
45 against the GNU IDN library.
46
47 Environment Variables:
48 * GnuTLS logging (disabled by default) can be controlled through the
49 PURPLE_GNUTLS_DEBUG environment variable, which is an integer between
50 0 and 9 (higher is more verbose). Higher values may reveal sensitive
51 information.
52 * PURPLE_VERBOSE_DEBUG environment variable. Currently, this is an "on" or
53 "off" variable. Set it to any value to turn it on and unset it to turn
54 it off. This will optionally be used to only show less useful debug
55 information on an as-needed basis.
56 * PURPLE_LEAKCHECK_HELP environment variable. Currently, this is an "on"
57 or "off" variable. Set it to any value to turn it on and unset it to
58 turn it off. This will be used to perform various actions that are
59 useful when running libpurple inside of Valgrind or similar programs.
60 Currently, it keeps plugins in memory, allowing Valgrind to perform
61 symbol resolution of leak traces at shutdown.
62
63 AIM and ICQ:
64 * Preliminary support for a new authentication scheme called
65 "clientLogin."
66 * Fixed a bug where your away message sometimes would not get set when
67 you first sign on.
68 * Make sure links in your away messages show up as links to other people.
69 * For ICQ, Never change the privacy setting specified by the user.
70
71 Gadu-Gadu:
72 * Accounts can specify a server to which to connect.
73 (Krzysztof "kreez" Tobola)
74 * Correctly show tooltip status for contacts with status messages.
75 (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" Klinikowski)
76 * Support for fetching buddy icons. (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" Klinikowski)
77 * Support connection progress steps in Gadu-Gadu. (Krzysztof "kkszysiu"
78 Klinikowski)
79
80 MSN:
81 * Add support for receiving handwritten (ink) messages on MSN. (Chris
82 Stafford, Gal Topper, and Elliott Sales de Andrade)
83 * Add support for receiving audio clips on MSN. (Chris Stafford, Gal
84 Topper, and Elliott Sales de Andrade)
85 * Show the invite message for buddies that requested authorization
86 from you on MSN.
87 * Support sending an invite message to buddies when requesting authorization
88 from them on MSN.
89 * Timeout switchboard connections aggressively (60 seconds).
9 90
10 XMPP: 91 XMPP:
11 * Add support for in-band bytestreams (XEP-0047). 92 * Voice & Video support with Jingle (XEP-0166, 0167, 0176, & 0177), voice
12 * Add support for attention (XEP-0224). 93 support with GTalk and voice and video support with the GMail web
94 client. (Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht)
95 * Added a Service Discovery Browser plugin for Pidgin. (Andrei Mozzhuhin)
96 * Support for in-band bytestreams for file transfers (XEP-0047). (Marcus
97 Lundblad)
98 * Support for sending and receiving attentions (equivalent to "buzz"
99 and "nudge") using the command /buzz. (XEP-0224)
100 * Support for connecting using BOSH. (Tobias Markmann)
101 * A buddy's local time is displayed in the Get Info dialog if the remote
102 client supports it.
103 * The set_chat_topic function can unset the chat topic.
104 * The Ad-Hoc commands associated with our server are now always shown at
105 login.
106 * Support showing and reporting idle times in the buddy list. (XEP-0256)
107 * Support most recent version of User Avatar. (XEP-0084 v1.1)
108 * Updated Entity Capabilities support. (Tobias Markmann)
109 * Better support for receiving remote users' nicknames.
110 * /affiliate and /role will now list the room members with the specified
111 affiliation/role if possible. (Andrei Mozzhuhin)
112 * Put section breaks between resources in "Get Info" to improve readability.
113 * Silently remove invalid XML 1.0 entities (e.g. ASCII control characters)
114 from sent messages.
115 * XHTML markup is only included in outgoing messages when the message
116 contains formatting.
117 * Show when the user was last logged in when doing "Get Info" on an offline
118 buddy, provided the server supports it.
119 * Support custom smileys in MUCs (only when all participants support the
120 "Bits of Binary" extension, and a maximum of 10 participants are in the
121 chat to avoid getting too many fetch requests).
122 * Fix an issue with Jabber (pre-XMPP) servers and the user's preference
123 to require SSL not being respected.
124 * Fix an issue where Cyrus SASL DIGEST MD5 authentication might fail if
125 the username, password, or realm (the JID domain) contain non-ASCII
126 characters.
127 * Show emblem for mobile, handheld, and web clients and bots (if the other
128 client supports it).
129 * Google Talk mail notifications should now work for people for whom they
130 inexplicably did not. (Thanks to yukam for determining the reason)
131 * New XMPP and Google Talk accounts require SSL by default.
132 * Display kicks (and the reasons given) in chat rooms when an occupant is
133 kicked.
134 * Fix issues with case-sensitivity of XMPP roster and case-insensitive
135 Purple groups.
136 * For contacts who advertise Entity Capabilities, only send rich text
137 markup if they support it.
138 * Removed support for obsoleted XEP-0022 (Message Events) and XEP-0091
139 (Legacy Entity Time).
140 * When the GNU IDN library (libidn) is available, it is used for
141 normalization of Jabber IDs. When unavailable, internal routines are
142 used (as in previous versions).
143 * Topics that contain '<' followed by a non-whitespace character can now
144 be set properly.
145
146 Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN:
147 * P2P file transfers. (Sulabh Mahajan)
148 * Sending text messages (address to +<countrycode><phone number>).
149 (Sulabh Mahajan)
150 * Addition of MSN buddies to Yahoo accounts by adding them as
151 'msn/buddy@somedomain.com' is now supported. (Sulabh Mahajan)
152 * Further fixes for buddy pictures, aliases, etc.
153 * Yahoo! and Yahoo! JAPAN are now two separate protocol plugins that share
154 common protocol code. You can now have the same account on both
155 networks. Accounts should be seamlessly migrated to the new
156 arrangement.
157 * Ability to set personal details for an account and for buddies in the
158 buddylist.
13 159
14 Pidgin: 160 Pidgin:
15 * Added -f command line option to tell Pidgin to ignore NetworkManager 161 * Added -f command line option to tell Pidgin to ignore NetworkManager
16 and assume it has a valid network connection. 162 and assume it has a valid network connection.
17 * Allow plugins to specify custom link types to the GtkIMHtml widget. 163 * Allow plugins to specify custom link types to the GtkIMHtml widget.
18 * The status message input box at the bottom of the buddy list expands 164 * The status message input box at the bottom of the buddy list expands
19 correctly when starting a new line of text. 165 correctly when starting a new line of text.
20 * Pressing the Enter key in the message entry box of the New Status 166 * Pressing the Enter key in the message entry box of the New Status
21 dialog and various other dialogs now causes the cursor to move to 167 dialog and various other dialogs now causes the cursor to move to
22 the next line. 168 the next line.
169 * Created a unified Buddy Pounce notification window for all pounces
170 where "Pop up a notification" is selected, which avoids having a
171 new dialog box every time a pounce is triggered. (Jorge Villaseñor)
172 * The New Account dialog is now broken into three tabs. Proxy
173 configuration has been moved from the Advanced tab to the new tab.
174 * Dragging a buddy onto a chat pops up a chat-invitation dialog.
175 (Carlos Bederian)
176 * The nicks of the persons who leave the chatroom are italicized in the
177 chat's conversation history. The nicks are un-italicized when they
178 rejoin.
179 * Always set unseen-count and unseen-state on conversations.
180 (Joshua Stein)
181 * Fix a bug in 'Conversation Colors' plugin for RTL messages.
182 * Pressing the Left and Right arrow keys in the buddy list will expand and
183 collapse buddy groups or contacts. (Peter Ruibal)
184 * Support saving animated custom smileys as animated images or animated
185 custom smileys. (Andrea Piccinelli)
186 * Support for keyboard navigation on the status icon. (Li Yuan)
187 * IMG tags without 'id' attributes are turned into links to the image URL.
188 (Dmitry Petroff)
189 * Draw the user's buddy icon at the bottom of the Buddy List with rounded
190 corners for visual consistency with the actual icons in the Buddy List.
191 (Kosta Arvanitis)
192 * When file transfers are complete, the received file name written to the
193 conversation window is now linked to the file.
194 * Fix a crash when closing a conversation tab that has unread messages
195 when the Message Notification plugin is loaded.
196 * Fix a crash when closing the New Mail dialog if an account with new
197 mail was previously disconnected while the dialog was open.
198 * Fix incorrect unread message counts for the new mail notifications.
199 * Do not lose unread messages with a hidden conversation window when
200 new IM conversations are hidden and "Close IMs immediately when the tab
201 is closed" is unset.
202
203 Finch:
204 * The hardware cursor is updated correctly. This will be useful
205 especially for users of braille terminals, screen readers etc.
206 * Added a TinyURL plugin, which aids copying longer URLs.
207 * Fixed UTF-8 compatibility problems which could cause exits or other
208 unrequested behaviour.
209
210 Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control Plugin:
211 * Removed mouse cursor color preferences.
212 * Added "Typing Notification Color" preference.
213 * Added "Disable Typing Notification Text" preference.
214 * Preferences have been reorganized into three tabs for Colors, Fonts, and
215 Miscellaneous categories.
216
217 version 2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
218 * Fix a crash via a specially crafted MSN message (CVE-2009-2694,
219 thanks to Core Security Technologies for discovering this and
220 notifying us privately before announcing it).
221 * Fix a crash in Bonjour, MSN, and XMPP when trying to transfer files with
222 NULL names.
223
224 version 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
225 ICQ:
226 * Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy)
227
228 MSN:
229 * Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that
230 have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!.
231
232 MySpace:
233 * Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.
234 * Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace's web IM client.
235
236 Yahoo:
237 * Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when
238 signing out.
239 * Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in
240 2.5.7.
241 * Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.
242 * Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues,
243 but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.
244 * The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the
245 user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease
246 the pain of transition to the new login method.
247
248 XMPP:
249 * Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients.
250
251 version 2.5.7 (06/20/2009):
252 * Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should
253 fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh
254 Mahajan, Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht)
255 * Only display the AIM "Unable to Retrieve Buddy List" message once per
256 connection. (Rob Taft)
257 * Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you.
258 * When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport
259 network if we don't get network ID's for them.
260
261 version 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
262 libpurple:
263 * Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second
264 boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
265 * Fix various crashes on exit.
266 * Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries.
267 This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes
268 on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
269 * Many security related fixes.
270
271 IRC:
272 * Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of
273 channels.
274 * Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying
275 fallback nicks.
276
277 MSN:
278 * Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
279 * Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused
280 by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.
281
282 XMPP:
283 * Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of
284 the "Hide new IM conversations" preference.
285
286 Yahoo:
287 * Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
288 * Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.
23 289
24 version 2.5.5 (03/01/2009): 290 version 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
25 libpurple: 291 libpurple:
26 * Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id. 292 * Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id.
27 * Beta support for SSL connections for AIM and ICQ accounts. To 293 * Beta support for SSL connections for AIM and ICQ accounts. To