changeset 27929:c63ce77653e0

John said I should NEWS, too. Am I allowed to use 'NEWS' as a verb?
author Paul Aurich <paul@darkrain42.org>
date Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:58:01 +0000
parents 490d2fe5ad8a
children ffbcfc22a7af
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 	in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time
 	reporting on XMPP. Enjoy!
 
+	Paul: This is my first news, too!  This release has definitely been a
+	long time coming; hopefully it won't disappoint since we've closed over
+	200 tickets.  Among other things, Tobias Markmann's GSoC project from
+	last year was merged, which means we now support BOSH (XMPP connections
+	over HTTP), and Andrei Mozzhuhin contributed an XMPP Service Discovery
+	Browser.  Also, thanks to Bernmeister for poking (at least) several
+	hundred old tickets!
+
 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
 	John:  This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
 	a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.