Download Trillian Astra 5.3 Build 8 Beta

Cerulean Studios has released a new beta release of Trillian Astra version 5.3. This instant messaging program allows chatting with users of a variety of instant messaging and social networks, including Windows Live, ICQ, Skype (text only), Twitter, and Facebook. Trillian Astra is available for Windows, OS X, iOS, Android and BlackBerry. In addition, there is a version that runs in a web browser and can therefore be used anywhere.

Cerulean Studios indicated when version 5.2 was released that it would now come up with new versions faster, which means that fewer new features are introduced per release. In version 5.3 we find improvements with regard to group conversations and there is now also a plug-in that allows chatting during games. Furthermore, the program handles SSL certificates better and several small improvements have been made to make the program work better in Windows 8. Build 8, on the other hand, only contains bug fixes.

Fixed in Trillian 5.3 Build 7 -> 5.3 Build 8

• [Emoticon] Camera icon is mis-cropped
• [Game] Added manual timer healing stuff for InstallOnGameSideHelper() function in IngPlugin.cpp
• [Game] Add more items to blacklist
• [Game] Back not working
• [Game] Allow keyboard shortcut changing
• [Game] A way to localize the strings that are shown
• [Game] Default the keyboard shortcut for games to “Ctrl+T”
• [Game] Don’t show unread badge unless its more than zero (except you have to show it in overlay at zero)
• [Game] Dynamically change the height of the edit box based on content
• [Game] Fixed bugs related to unread indicatorRect
• [Game] Fixed crashes
• [Game] Fixed issue with color space in some games
• [Game] Fixed issue with OpenGL (for apps which dont have full rendering cycle (so, render only when some client rect should be invalidated))
• [Game] Fixed issue with SetWindowsHookExA restoring stuff
• [Game] Move game on/off into preferences from plugins
• [Game] Using of d3dx10/11.dll was removed. Now we add compiled shaders into binary as resources and use these
• [Game] Verify image before sending it
• [Group Chats] Realname next to display name in add people dialog
• [Group Chats] Someone left group chat -> didn’t update avatar
• [History] History is out of order on some days
• [History] Sometimes shows left
• [IRC] Code ‘allow’ for self signed certs
• [IRC] Doesn’t show ‘disconnected’ if you try to reconnect and fail via menu
• [IRC] Nicklist does not update properly
• [Languages] Update the wiki to match 5.3 language packs
• [LinkedIn] Window is too small
• [Message Windows] Emoticon window appears in the wrong location on dual monitors if positioned near the edges
• [Message Windows] Fixed a crash related to screen capture
• [Message Windows] Random crash when typing
• [Message Windows] Spell checker crashes on high character utf8
• [Message Windows] Will show console messages if a certain logging setting is on
• [SDK] Fix plugins pages loading the same page for different plugins with the same pages of the same name
• [SDK] Retweet count is not returned in enumerate
• [Status icons] New online/away/etc icons in the taskbar for windows 7 for contact list
• [Status icons] Update message window status icon area to fit 16×16 not just 12×12
• [Wizard] Change ceruleanstudios signup to trillian.im
• [Wizard] Remove security question from registration
• [Twitter] Bit.ly errors are not handled well with already shortened links
• [Twitter] Settings page may be blank with bad data
• [Twitter] Show retweets only works once
• [ICQ] Blurry avatars on ICQ – try to send 64×64 and 100×100 avatars now
• [XMPP] Settings not saving for accounts that had backslash character in username
• [XMPP] Support talk.google.com and gmail.com domains based on username for SSL certificate validation