comparison ChangeLog @ 26987:cd78ea46e9bd

merge of '7c614b09b72037ebd86c03fbbeac7794a155547b' and 'af18689b86389686230fc6ce83cbba52690ce0cb'
author Paul Aurich <paul@darkrain42.org>
date Sat, 30 May 2009 00:32:50 +0000
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3 version 2.6.0 (??/??/2009): 3 version 2.6.0 (??/??/2009):
4 General: 4 General:
5 * Theme support in libpurple thanks to Justin Rodriguez's summer of code 5 * Theme support in libpurple thanks to Justin Rodriguez's summer of code
6 project. With some minor additions and clean ups from Paul Aurich. 6 project. With some minor additions and clean ups from Paul Aurich.
7 * Voice & Video framework in libpurple, thanks to Mike Ruprecht's summer
8 of code project in 2008.
7 * It should no longer be possible to end up with duplicates of buddies 9 * It should no longer be possible to end up with duplicates of buddies
8 in a group on the buddy list. 10 in a group on the buddy list. (Paul Aurich)
9 * Removed the unmaintained and unneeded toc protocol plugin. 11 * Removed the unmaintained and unneeded toc protocol plugin.
10 * Fixed NTLM authentication on big-endian systems. 12 * Fixed NTLM authentication on big-endian systems.
11 * Dragging a buddy onto a chat pops up a chat-invitation dialog.
12 (Carlos Bederian)
13 13
14 libpurple: 14 libpurple:
15 * Various memory cleanups when unloading libpurple. (Nick Hebner) 15 * Various memory cleanups when unloading libpurple. (Nick Hebner)
16 * Report idle time 'From last message sent' should work properly.
17 * Show the invite message for buddies that requested authorization
18 from you on MSN.
19 * DNS servers are re-read when DNS queries fail in case the system has
20 moved to a new network and the old servers are not accessible.
16 21
17 XMPP: 22 XMPP:
18 * Add voice & video support with Jingle (XEP-0166, 0167, 0176, & 0177), 23 * Voice & Video support with Jingle (XEP-0166, 0167, 0176, & 0177), and
19 and voice support with GTalk and GMail. (Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht) 24 voice support with GTalk and GMail. (Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht)
20 * Add support for in-band bytestreams for file transfers (XEP-0047). 25 * Support for in-band bytestreams for file transfers (XEP-0047). (Marcus
21 * Add support for sending and receiving attentions (equivalent to "buzz" 26 Lundblad)
22 and "nudge") using the command /buzz (XEP-0224). 27 * Support for sending and receiving attentions (equivalent to "buzz"
28 and "nudge") using the command /buzz. (XEP-0224)
29 * Support for connecting using BOSH. (Tobias Markmann)
23 * A buddy's local time is displayed in the Get Info dialog if the remote 30 * A buddy's local time is displayed in the Get Info dialog if the remote
24 client supports it. 31 client supports it.
25 32 * The set_chat_topic function can unset the chat topic.
26 IRC: 33 * The Ad-Hoc commands associated with our server are now always shown at
27 * Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of 34 login.
28 channels. 35 * Support showing and reporting idle times in the buddy list. (XEP-0256)
29 * Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying 36 * Support most recent version of User Avatar. (XEP-0084 v1.1)
30 fallback nicks. 37 * Updated Entity Capabilities support. (Tobias Markmann)
38 * Better support for receiving remote users' nicknames.
39 * /affiliate and /role will now list the room members with the specified
40 affiliation/role if possible. (Andrei Mozzhuhin)
41 * Put section breaks between resources in "Get Info" to improve readability.
42 * XHTML markup is only included in outgoing messages when the message
43 contains formatting.
44 * Show when the user was last logged in when doing "Get Info" on an offline
45 buddy, provided the server supports it.
46 * Support custom smileys in MUCs (only when all participants support the
47 "Bits of Binary" extension, and a maximum of 10 participants are in the
48 chat to avoid getting too many fetch requests).
49 * Fix an issue with Jabber (pre-XMPP) servers and the user's preference
50 to require SSL not being respected.
51
52 Yahoo:
53 * P2P file transfers. (Sulabh Mahajan)
54 * Sending text messages (address to +<countrycode><phone number>).
55 (Sulabh Mahajan)
56 * Addition of MSN buddies to Yahoo accounts by adding them as
57 'msn/buddy@somedomain.com' is now supported. (Sulabh Mahajan)
58 * Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should
59 fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh
60 Mahajan, Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht)
31 61
32 Pidgin: 62 Pidgin:
33 * Added -f command line option to tell Pidgin to ignore NetworkManager 63 * Added -f command line option to tell Pidgin to ignore NetworkManager
34 and assume it has a valid network connection. 64 and assume it has a valid network connection.
35 * Allow plugins to specify custom link types to the GtkIMHtml widget. 65 * Allow plugins to specify custom link types to the GtkIMHtml widget.
38 * Pressing the Enter key in the message entry box of the New Status 68 * Pressing the Enter key in the message entry box of the New Status
39 dialog and various other dialogs now causes the cursor to move to 69 dialog and various other dialogs now causes the cursor to move to
40 the next line. 70 the next line.
41 * Created a unified Buddy Pounce notification window for all pounces 71 * Created a unified Buddy Pounce notification window for all pounces
42 where "Pop up a notification" is selected, which avoids having a 72 where "Pop up a notification" is selected, which avoids having a
43 new dialog box every time a pounce is triggered. (Jorge VillaseƱor) 73 new dialog box every time a pounce is triggered. (Jorge VillaseƱor)
44 * The New Account dialog is now broken into three tabs. Proxy 74 * The New Account dialog is now broken into three tabs. Proxy
45 configuration has been moved from the Advanced tab to the new tab. 75 configuration has been moved from the Advanced tab to the new tab.
76 * Dragging a buddy onto a chat pops up a chat-invitation dialog.
77 (Carlos Bederian)
46 * The nicks of the persons who leave the chatroom are italicized in the 78 * The nicks of the persons who leave the chatroom are italicized in the
47 chat's conversation history. The nicks are un-italicized when they 79 chat's conversation history. The nicks are un-italicized when they
48 rejoin. 80 rejoin.
81 * Always set unseen-count and unseen-state on conversations.
82 (Joshua Stein)
49 83
50 Finch: 84 Finch:
51 * The hardware cursor is updated correctly. This will be useful 85 * The hardware cursor is updated correctly. This will be useful
52 especially for users of braille terminals, screen readers etc. 86 especially for users of braille terminals, screen readers etc.
53 * Added a TinyURL plugin, which aids copying longer URLs. 87 * Added a TinyURL plugin, which aids copying longer URLs.
88
89 version 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
90 libpurple:
91 * Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second
92 boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
93 * Fix various crashes on exit.
94 * Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries.
95 This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes
96 on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
97 * Many security related fixes.
98
99 IRC:
100 * Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of
101 channels.
102 * Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying
103 fallback nicks.
104
105 MSN:
106 * Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
107 * Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused
108 by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.
109
110 XMPP:
111 * Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of
112 the "Hide new IM conversations" preference.
113
114 Yahoo:
115 * Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
116 * Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.
54 117
55 version 2.5.5 (03/01/2009): 118 version 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
56 libpurple: 119 libpurple:
57 * Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id. 120 * Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id.
58 * Beta support for SSL connections for AIM and ICQ accounts. To 121 * Beta support for SSL connections for AIM and ICQ accounts. To