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| author | SHiNE CsyFeK <csyfek@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:15:45 +0000 |
| parents | f95bcb5eb047 |
| children | 5299547556ae |
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--- a/ChangeLog Thu May 21 14:38:56 2009 +0000 +++ b/ChangeLog Sat Jul 18 15:15:45 2009 +0000 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul version 2.6.0 (??/??/2009): - General: + libpurple: * Theme support in libpurple thanks to Justin Rodriguez's summer of code project. With some minor additions and clean ups from Paul Aurich. * Voice & Video framework in libpurple, thanks to Mike Ruprecht's summer @@ -10,15 +10,65 @@ in a group on the buddy list. * Removed the unmaintained and unneeded toc protocol plugin. * Fixed NTLM authentication on big-endian systems. - - libpurple: * Various memory cleanups when unloading libpurple. (Nick Hebner) * Report idle time 'From last message sent' should work properly. + * DNS servers are re-read when DNS queries fail in case the system has + moved to a new network and the old servers are not accessible. + * DNS SRV records with equal priority are sorted with respect to their + weight as specified in RFC 2782. (Vijay Raghunathan) + * GnuTLS logging (disabled by default) can be controlled through the + PURPLE_GNUTLS_DEBUG environment variable, which is an integer between + 0 and 9 (higher is more verbose). Higher values may reveal sensitive + information. + * PURPLE_VERBOSE_DEBUG environment variable. Currently, this is an "on" or + "off" variable. Set it to any value to turn it on and unset it to turn + it off. This will optionally be used to only show less useful debug + information on an as-needed basis. + * PURPLE_LEAKCHECK_HELP environment variable. Currently, this is an "on" + or "off" variable. Set it to any value to turn it on and unset it to + turn it off. This will be used to perform various actions that are + useful when running libpurple inside of Valgrind or similar programs. + Currently, it keeps plugins in memory, allowing Valgrind to perform + symbol resolution of leak traces at shutdown. + * Add support for receiving handwritten (ink) messages on MSN. + * Don't do IPv6 address lookups if the computer does not have an IPv6 + address configured. + * Add support for receiving audio clips on MSN. + * Fix a leak when the UI provides its own DNS resolving UI op. + (Aman Gupta) + * Don't fork a DNS resolver process to resolve IP addresses. (Aman Gupta) + * Show the invite message for buddies that requested authorization + from you on MSN. + * Support sending an invite message to buddies when requesting authorization + from them on MSN. + * Better handling of corrupt certificates in the TLS Peers cache. + * More efficient purple_find_buddies() and purple_find_group() functions. + (Jan Kaluza and Aman Gupta) + + AIM and ICQ: + * Preliminary support for a new authentication scheme called + "clientLogin." + * Fixed a bug where your away message sometimes would not get set when + you first sign on. + * Make sure links in your away messages show up as links to other people. + * For ICQ, Never change the privacy setting specified by the user. + + Gadu-Gadu: + * Accounts can specify a server to which to connect. + (Krzysztof "kreez" Tobola) + * Correctly show tooltip status for contacts with status messages. + (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" Klinikowski) + * Support for fetching buddy icons. (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" Klinikowski) + * Support connection progress steps in Gadu-Gadu. (Krzysztof "kkszysiu" + Klinikowski) XMPP: - * Voice & Video support with Jingle (XEP-0166, 0167, 0176, & 0177), and - voice support with GTalk and GMail. (Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht) - * Support for in-band bytestreams for file transfers (XEP-0047). + * Voice & Video support with Jingle (XEP-0166, 0167, 0176, & 0177), voice + support with GTalk and voice and video support with the GMail web + client. (Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht) + * Added a Service Discovery Browser plugin for Pidgin. (Andrei Mozzhuhin) + * Support for in-band bytestreams for file transfers (XEP-0047). (Marcus + Lundblad) * Support for sending and receiving attentions (equivalent to "buzz" and "nudge") using the command /buzz. (XEP-0224) * Support for connecting using BOSH. (Tobias Markmann) @@ -34,20 +84,50 @@ * /affiliate and /role will now list the room members with the specified affiliation/role if possible. (Andrei Mozzhuhin) * Put section breaks between resources in "Get Info" to improve readability. + * Silently remove invalid XML 1.0 entities (e.g. ASCII control characters) + from sent messages. * XHTML markup is only included in outgoing messages when the message contains formatting. * Show when the user was last logged in when doing "Get Info" on an offline buddy, provided the server supports it. - * Support custom smileys in MUCs (only when all participants supports the + * Support custom smileys in MUCs (only when all participants support the "Bits of Binary" extension, and a maximum of 10 participants are in the - chat (to avoid getting too many fetch requests). + chat to avoid getting too many fetch requests). + * Fix an issue with Jabber (pre-XMPP) servers and the user's preference + to require SSL not being respected. + * Fix an issue where Cyrus SASL DIGEST MD5 authentication might fail if + the username, password, or realm (the JID domain) contain non-ASCII + characters. + * Show emblem for mobile, handheld, and web clients and bots (if the other + client supports it). + * Google Talk mail notifications should now work for people for whom they + inexplicably did not. (Thanks to yukam for determining the reason) + * New XMPP and Google Talk accounts require SSL by default. + * Display kicks (and the reasons given) in chat rooms when an occupant is + kicked. + * Fix issues with case-sensitivity of XMPP roster and case-insensitive + Purple groups. + * For contacts who advertise Entity Capabilities, only send rich text + markup if they support it. + * Removed support for obsoleted XEP-0022 (Message Events) and XEP-0091 + (Legacy Entity Time). + * When the GNU IDN library (libidn) is available, it is used for + normalization of Jabber IDs and support for internationalized domain + names (IDNA). When unavailable, internal routines are used (as in + previous versions) for normalization and IDNA is unavailable. - Yahoo: - * P2P file transfers. (Sulabh Mahajan) - * MSN Interoperability by adding MSN buddies as 'msn/user@example.com'. - (Sulabh Mahajan) + Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN: + * P2P file transfers. (Sulabh Mahajan) * Sending text messages (address to +<countrycode><phone number>). (Sulabh Mahajan) + * Addition of MSN buddies to Yahoo accounts by adding them as + 'msn/buddy@somedomain.com' is now supported. (Sulabh Mahajan) + * Further fixes for buddy pictures, aliases etc. + * Yahoo! and Yahoo! JAPAN are now two separate protocol plugins that share + common protocol code. You can now have the same account on both + networks. + * Ability to set personal details for an account and for buddies in the + buddylist. Pidgin: * Added -f command line option to tell Pidgin to ignore NetworkManager @@ -70,12 +150,100 @@ rejoin. * Always set unseen-count and unseen-state on conversations. (Joshua Stein) + * Fix a bug in 'Conversation Colors' plugin for RTL messages. + * Pressing the Left and Right arrow keys in the buddy list will expand and + collapse buddy groups or contacts. (Peter Ruibal) + * Support saving animated custom smileys as animated images or animated + custom smileys. (Andrea Piccinelli) + * Support for keyboard navigation on the status icon. (Li Yuan) + * IMG tags without 'id' attributes are turned into links to the image URL. + (Dmitry Petroff) + * Draw the user's buddy icon at the bottom of the Buddy List with rounded + corners for visual consistency with the actual icons in the Buddy List. + (Kosta Arvanitis) + * When file transfers are complete, the received file name written to the + conversation window is now linked to the file. + * Fix a crash when closing a conversation tab that has unread messages + when the Message Notification plugin is loaded. Finch: * The hardware cursor is updated correctly. This will be useful especially for users of braille terminals, screen readers etc. * Added a TinyURL plugin, which aids copying longer URLs. + Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control Plugin: + * Removed mouse cursor color preferences. + * Added "Typing Notification Color" preference. + * Added "Disable Typing Notification Text" preference. + * Preferences have been reorganized into three tabs for Colors, Fonts, and + Miscellaneous categories. + +version 2.5.8 (06/27/2009): + ICQ: + * Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy) + + MSN: + * Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that + have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!. + + MySpace: + * Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected. + * Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace's web IM client. + + Yahoo: + * Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when + signing out. + * Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in + 2.5.7. + * Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older. + * Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, + but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones. + * The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the + user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease + the pain of transition to the new login method. + + XMPP: + * Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients. + +version 2.5.7 (06/20/2009): + * Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should + fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh + Mahajan, Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht) + * Only display the AIM "Unable to Retrieve Buddy List" message once per + connection. (Rob Taft) + * Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you. + * When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport + network if we don't get network ID's for them. + +version 2.5.6 (05/19/2009): + libpurple: + * Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second + boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam) + * Fix various crashes on exit. + * Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries. + This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes + on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details). + * Many security related fixes. + + IRC: + * Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of + channels. + * Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying + fallback nicks. + + MSN: + * Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes. + * Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused + by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies. + + XMPP: + * Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of + the "Hide new IM conversations" preference. + + Yahoo: + * Fix a crash when sending very long messages. + * Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle. + version 2.5.5 (03/01/2009): libpurple: * Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id.