os x Adium 1.5 RC 5

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

What's new in Adium 1.5 RC 5:

General

• Can't change XMPP room settings for combo box settings (#15629).
  
• Fixed deletion of a Gadu-Gadu contact from contact list not being persistent (#9126).
  
• Fixed message view content not scrolled to bottom when opening and not scrolling when new content is added.
  

Localization

• Swedish (#15786).
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 RC 4:

General

• Fixed the contact list appearing in a wrong position at startup on Mac OS X Lion (#15341, #15480).
  
• Fixed message history only showing on 1st tab, on startup (#15377).
  
• Fixed message view jumps to the bottom when Twitter Timeline updates (#15790).
  
• Fixed the contact list shrinking when closing the search (#14433).
  

Localization

• Fixed the Ukrainian localization not being used on Mac OS X Lion (#15821).
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 RC 3:

General

• Fixed permission issues caused by previous release being built incorrectly.
  
• Blacklisted the Skype plugin in 1.5, as it's known to be broken.
  
• Restored LiveJournal connectivity by removing the hard-coded server name, they have an SRV record now.
  

Localisation

• Updated localisations: Italian (#15810, #15808).
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 RC 2:

Localization

• Updated localizations: German (#15586, #15733), Greek, Swedish (#15786).
  
• Fixed localization of a couple of emoticon names.
  

General

• Fixed hang which could occur when receiving a message and opening the Transcript Viewer at the same time.
  
• Renamed "Current Track" status to "iTunes Status" (known as "iTunes" prior to 1.5).
  
• Fixed numerous memory leaks.
  
• Fixed numerous Clang Analyzer warnings.
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 RC 1:

Localisation

• Updated localisations: Catalan (#15770), Chinese (Traditional), Italian (#15758), Portuguese (Portugal) (#15721), Slovenian (#15772).
  
• Fixed typos/misspellings in Russian localization. (#15769, #15571)
  

Transcript Viewer

• Fixed ghosting artifacts when scrolling transcript contents (while searching).
  
• Fixed a potential crash when the log index failed to initialize while trying to delete a log.
  
• Fixed a hang caused by two threads opening the same index simultaneously.
  

General

• Added Aqualicious Graphite, a new contact list theme to match Mac OS X's Graphite style.
  
• Added the generic menu items to the group chat cog button for XMPP groupchats.
  
• Fixed "Show Toolbar" showing as disabled and untranslated. (#15759)
  
• Fixed ghosting artifacts in the "Get Info" window's "Events" tab. (#12237)
  
• Fixed enable/disable "View Chat Transcripts" menu item, in group chats (user list) context menu.
  
• Chats can no longer refuse to quit when they're still processing content.
  
• Fixed AdiumAppleScriptRunner to enable building on Lion.
  
• Switched some adiumx.com links to adium.im.
  
• Fixed a bunch of non-integer view size values.
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 beta 9:

General

• Fixed the contact list not remembering its position on Lion. (#15341, #15480)
  
• Fixed the message entry area being very large when Adium is first run.
  
• Fixed display of Google+ users that don't reveal their email address.
  
• Fixed some display issues with the user list when resizing a small chat window.(#15577)
  
• Make some labels look enabled/disabled like their respective checkbokes. (#15133)
  
• Updated Growl.framework to 1.3.1, fixing a potential crash. (#15728)
  
• New Adiumy menu bar icon set (by Igor Kryzhanovskyi).
  

Localisation

• Made additional strings localisable
  
• Widenened "Advanced" preferences and "Get Info" windows to accomodate longer translations. (#15712)
  
• Updated localisations: French (#15734), German (#15586, #15658), Portuguese (Portugal) (#15721), Swedish (#15726).
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 beta 8:

General

• Make sure opening chatlog files does not show a warning in Finder about opening downloaded files. (#15573)
  
• Refactoring of ESiTunesPlugin including:
  
  • Use same menu in menu bar, context menu and toolbar.
    
  • Fix bug when replacing tokens with empty strings.
    
  • Make tokens un-localizable.
    

  [*]Fix a potential crash when opening the crash logger. (#15556)

  [*]Fixed setting a global shortcut which used the letter "a" (yet again). (#12013)

Interface

• Disabled elastic scroll in the text input of the message view.
  
• Disabled elastic scroll in Change User Picture Menu.
  

Libpurple

• Updated libpurple, with the following changes:
  
  • Fix double mail notifications on MSN. (#13920)
    
  • Make disconnecting due to flooding on IRC less likely to occur. (#11199)
    

Twitter

• For retweets, show the full original tweet instead of the truncated retweet. (#15226)
  

Localisation

• Made non-localizable elements in ESStatusAdvancedPreferences localizable. (#15682)
  
• Updated translations: Catalan (#14898), Czech (#15677), Danish (#15703), Dutch (#15697), Australian English (#15700), German (#15586), Portuguese (Portugal) (#15706), Swedish (#15605).
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 beta 7:

Localization

• Don't compile nibs in Release-Debug.
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 beta 6:

General

• Fixed automatic updating between betas failing with the error "Can't make a temporary directory for the update download". (#15666)
  
• Correct strange behavior in the messages pref pane. (#15670)
  
• Further fixes of message context display. (#15377)
  
• Fixed a 2px alignment issue when a normal or borderless contact window is set to vertically resize automatically. (#15626)
  
• Restored bouncy scroll behavior to normal window style contact list windows.
  
• Fixed crash when sending certain group chat requests. (#15674)
  
• Fixed emotes ('/me' messages) in IRC private chats. (#15589)
  
• Fixed global application shortcut. (#12013)
  
• Fixed some issues with AppleScript. (Peter Schmitt) (#15234)
  
• Fixed incorrectly formatted output in the logviewer. (#15574)
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 beta 5:

General

• Fixed crash when loading Skype plugin. (#15590)
  
• Disabled loading WebKit plugins when presenting Facebook authorization windows.
  
• Fixed small leap when auto-scrolling resumes in About box.
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 beta 4:

General

• Reduced application bundle size and memory overhead. (#15466)
  
• Adium no longer erroneously reports it supports VV. (#15639)
  
• Fixed a visual glitch in AB and status advanced prefs. (#15646)
  
• Removed import from Fire. (#15366)
  
• Increased robustness of message context display.
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 beta 3:

General

• Fixed issue where window shadows were not initially rendered with transparent message view backgrounds (#12608)
  
• Fixed sounds playing from the main sound device, and not the alert sound device. (#15529)
  
• Fixed Adium's behavior with spaces and mission control. (#15408)
  
• Ask the user to re-authenticate with Facebook when we get a failed password response. (#15583)
  
• Fixed a crash when installing an Xtra from the website. (#15581)
  
• Smooth Operator - Alternating: improved closing focus indicators when icons are disabled (via checkbox or in IRC).
  
• Smooth Operator - Dark: added a faint striped texture to the background.
  
• minimal_mod: enabled header hiding if the user scrolls up far enough that Adium won't scroll on new content. (And removed the changing of header opacity on hover.)
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 beta 2:

General

• Made the separator between the text entry and message views thinner.
  
• Fixed a shadow drawing error under 64 bit in PSMTabBarController
  
• Fixed issue where the user count was not updated when the user list is dragged open. (#15446)
  
• Fixed issue where the state of the user list was not preserved when the user list is dragged open or closed.
  
• Fixed potential crash related to displaying emoticons.
  
• Fixed connecting to Facebook using OAuth. (#15544)
  
• Fixed numerous message view layout issues. (#15560, #15560, #15568, #15575, #15577, #15582)
  

What's new in Adium 1.5 beta 1:

Major Changes

• Requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later
  
• Requires an Intel Mac
  
• Added 64bit support.
  
• Updated to libpurple 2.10.0mtn
  
• Removed defunct QQ support.
  
• Various user interface improvements
  

Address Book integration

• Use a token field to specify the format to use for names imported from the Address Book. (#7394)
  
• Added support for Facebook. (kbotc) (#137559)
  

Authorization Requests

• First entry in the list is now auto-selected.
  
• Toolbar items now get disabled when no request is selected.
  

Contact List

• The contact list search now treats whitespace-separated words as keywords. (Paul Vet) (#14354)
  
• Improved the logic for the display of tooltips. (Matthew Plough) (#12774)
  
• User picture menu now looks native on Leopard and newer systems. (#11964)
  
• Made the user picture an image well, added drag and drop support.
  
• Fixed positioning of selected icon in Recent Icons not being reapplied when icon is reselected. (#9908)
  
• Added support for blocking/unblocking all contacts in a group. (Conor Branagan) (#2177)
  
• Added a "Deselect All" option to the "Edit" menu. (based on a patch by Tyler Funnell). (#10208)
  

Dock Icon

• Moved the dock badge to the top right to be consistent with other Mac OS X applications such as Mail. (#13439)
  
• Fixed dock badge text becoming too large. (#13088)
  
• Removed flashing of the contact name. (#14452)
  

Encryption

• Made it easier to delete a fingerprint. (Aleksei Gorny) (#1654)
  
• The "Generate" button is now labelled "Regenerate" when a fingerprint already exists. (Tyler Funnell) (#1128)
  
• Disable Encryption -> Initiate Encrypted OTR Chat, menu item, if encrypted chat is disabled from settings. (Tyler Funnell) (#7389)
  

Events and Notifications

• Added the ability to add timestamps to Growl notifications. (Stuart Connolly) (#9920)
  
• Added a "Do Nothing" event. (#3590).
  
• Added a "Message sent (Group chat)" event. (Will Bowling) (#12316)
  
• Added "Message received (Away)" and "Message received (Away Group Chat)" events. (Joshua Stein) (#13278)
  
• Added Regex support for mentions. (#12832)
  
• Get Info Window
  
• Various visual refinements. (Paul Wilde) (#14441)
  
• Removed the service icon from the top of the "Get Info" window's first pane (and from the contact list tooltip). (#14654)
  

Group Chats

• Added support for purple images (custom emoticons etc.). (Peter Fung) (#15183)
  

Chat Window

• Rounded user icon in the chat window toolbar. (#3757)
  
• Renamed the "Show Info" toolbar item to "Get Info" for consistency. (Ariel Chinn) (#14072)
  

Messaging

• Added a "Reopen Closed Tab" menu item to the File menu that will restore the most recently closed tab. (#12537)
  
• Clicking on a link whilst holding the Cmd key opens the link in the background. (Aaron Dodson) (#12129)
  
• Added Imgur as a supported image uploading service. (Shayne Sweeney) (#13186)
  
• Removed kl.am as a supported url shortener service. (Shawn Khan) (#14412)
  
• Fixed link insertion for NetNewsWire. (#11389)
  
• Added Google Chrome support for link insertion.
  

Message View

• Fixed "Recent messages" still showing with logging. (#12577)
  
• Smooth Operator replaced Stockholm as the default message style
  
• Added the "lastFocus" class for message styles to the latest message received while the chat didn't have focus, and "regainedFocus" for the first message received while the chat has regained focus after having previously lost it.
  
• Made emoticons between packs more consistent. (#11450)
  
• Fixed the ":^)" emoticon being mistakenly interpreted the same as ":-". (#13924)
  

Status

• Added ability to change which track information the "iTunes" status displays. (#6373)
  

Transcript Viewer

• Added next/previous buttons for highlighted search terms within a transcript (similar to Safari).
  
• Greatly improved reliability and speed of log indexing and search.
  
• Fixed a bug when writing inline images to chat logs. (Peter Fung) (#15186)
  
• User Picture (Buddy Icon)
  
• Added ability to resize animated gifs that are too large. (#9885)
  
• Image wells for changing user picture support drag & drop and will also open the Image Picker to edit the image if it's too large or not of square shape. (20% off shape)
  

Preferences

• Fixed some bad user interface behaviour in the "Customise..." sheet for dock icon in the "Appearance" pane. (#15158)
  
• Improved wording and alignment in the "Status" pane. (ctbeiser) (#15370)
  

AIM

• Added a preference for AIM: "allow multiple sign in locations" defaulting to true. (Josh Perry) (#5790)
  

StatusNet

• Allow overriding the 140 character limit for StatusNet. (kbotc, brion) (#13485)
  

XMPP

• Added support for supported characters in Jabber IDs. (Marc Kalmes) (#13099)
  

Xtras

• Added version numbers for Xtras to Xtras Manager. (Ariel Chinn) (#11285)
  
• Fixed case in the path for the iChat emoticons. (#14936)
  
• Group chat userlists and the status icons selection menu in the appearances preferences now use the tab version of status icons. (#13838)
  
• Fixed Xtras not displaying after Xtras Manager did load.
  

VoiceOver

• VoiceOver no longer says "empty" before each item in the contact list. (#12916 and #9004)
  
• The contact window's toolbar items now have appropriate labels. (#13010)
  

Miscellaneous

• The Downloads stack in the Dock will now bounce when Adium finishes receiving a file.
  
• Quarantine received files after downloading, so the Finder will show a warning before opening received applications (similar to Safari).
  
• Removed "Page Setup..." from the "File" menu. (#15367)
  
• Added the "On Accounts" table to the nextKeyView in the 'Add Contact' window. (#14269)
  
• New "About Adium" dialog. (Thanks to Mike Houben & Paul Wilde for graphics)
  
• Updated Adium Help documentation to look native on OS X Lion. (Paul Wilde) (#15357)
  
• Added a menu item to view release notes in the help menu. (#8569)
  
• Converted most AppleScripts from .scpt to .applescript files. (dak180) (#13940)
  
• Miscellaneous improvements to Copyright.txt file.
  
• Rewrote the libpurple eventloop to use libdispatch. (#13932)
  
• Debug logging: All GLib's errors and messages, and all exceptions are now logged to the Debug Window.
  

Download: Adium 1.5 RC 5

Edited March 5, 2012 by Mephistopheles

[.Neo]

Moved the dock badge to the top right to be consistent with other Mac OS X applications such as Mail.

Wow. Thought the day would never come. Too bad I stopped using Adium a while ago.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

Adium is getting heavvyyy... ~85MB. :0

I'm glad to see continued development though.

[adiaga]

what do you use neo?

[Gocom]

Adium is getting heavvyyy... ~85MB. :0

I'm glad to see continued development though.

Yeah, it's pretty big, always has been quite nicely eaten. Libpurple, the core library Adium uses, alone is already 13 MB, and that's just code.

[cooky560 Veteran]

This all sounds brilliant, but I still see there is no way to have either the menu in status bar or the dock icon, rather than both.

[Xtreme $niper]

I think some people (including myself) kind of moved away from Adium due to lack of development... I hope this is a sign that things will go back to normal soon.

[.Neo]

I think some people (including myself) kind of moved away from Adium due to lack of development... I hope this is a sign that things will go back to normal soon.

From what I'm seeing people are moving away from desktop-based IM altogether. Things like iMessage, BlackBerry Messenger, WhatsApp, FaceBook Chat took its place.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

From what I'm seeing people are moving away from desktop-based IM altogether. Things like iMessage, BlackBerry Messenger, WhatsApp, FaceBook Chat took its place.

I'm still using desktop-based IMs on a regular basis. Although most of the time I'm using Skype rather than one of the protocols supported by Adium.

[Simon Veteran]

Yeah... I just do everything by text message or Facebook. Occasionally I use Skype for video chat, but more often I'll just use a phone call.

Most IM protocols seem to have been replaced by "always on" modes of communication like text and (to a lesser extent) Facebook.

[Xtreme $niper]

Agreed, though when I log onto MSN once in a while to see who's on, I'm surprised at the number of people who still use it. I just don't go on because I feel no need to be in real-time contact with these people like I used to be. I much prefer emails or facebook messages now because they allow me to take my time to respond.

Though I still use Skype regularly... not because I want to, but because we use it at work.

[.Neo]

I'm still using desktop-based IMs on a regular basis. Although most of the time I'm using Skype rather than one of the protocols supported by Adium.

I was talking in general and about what I see happening in my surroundings. I didn't say nobody uses desktop-based IM anymore.

[Guest]

beta 2 out now!

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

beta 2 out now!

First post altered accordingly.

[Glassed Silver]

This all sounds brilliant, but I still see there is no way to have either the menu in status bar or the dock icon, rather than both.

Get Dock Dodger, if you want menu-only. (Y)

I use it with quite some applications and it works a treat! :)

Glassed Silver:mac

[DeadEndAccount]

I still keep it around because I have two hardcore people who still insist on using AIM and MSN where as most (99%) of my contacts are now using Facebook these days (both messaging and the chat function). I don't think that instant messaging is dying but rather people are wanting said functionality being tied into a larger social experience which is where Facebook comes into play. What I'd like to see is them submit their app to the AppStore - I'd be happy to shell out the US$100 or so to get their project registered for a developer account because it would be way one to raise the profile of the project and maybe get more people interested in contributing to it - even if the contributions are on an on-off basis.

[Shadrack]

@Mr Nom Nom - It is true, IM'ing is disappearing. Everyone txts and/or use Facebook Messenger. And lots of folks are using their cell phones for FB messenger now.

Facebook actually released a standalone Facebook Messenger app for iOS. There were a lot of negative reviews that the app didn't let you know who was online or offline. It is clear that Facebook is trying to step away from the "chit-chat" model that is only accessible if both parties are actively on a chat system and move more into a message delivery system that resembles txt messaging. I wouldn't be surprised if their "online" status disappears from their web site soon too.

It makes sense to me, anyway.

[AltecXP]

I dont talk to a single person on face book messenger, and when i try, people RAREly respond back on it.

[protocol7]

I used Adium for years but switched to Trillian lately and apart from the lack of UI customising, I prefer it. Really, the only thing I'd like to change in Trillian is the background of the chat windows to something other than white.

[acido00]

any screenshots of this new Beta version?

[cooky560 Veteran]

Get Dock Dodger, if you want menu-only. (Y)

I use it with quite some applications and it works a treat! :)

Glassed Silver:mac

Just out of interest what would then happen to notifications if I receive a message?

[Glassed Silver]

Just out of interest what would then happen to notifications if I receive a message?

Get Growl, cause honestly, no dock icon, no place to go for the bumping/flashing/name display.

You can set up menu bar notifications, though if I recall correctly.

Glassed Silver:mac

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Beta 3 is out. First post edited accordingly.

[AltecXP]

Yay, B3 is out. Adium 4 life!

[Prymitywista]

It still has got problem with contact list - it try to slide between spaces in LION - I came back to 1.4 version, where this bug isnt exist.