Download Trillian Astra 5.0 Build 27 Beta

Cerulean Studios released a new beta release of version 5.0 of the instant messaging program Trillian Astra on Monday. Trillian Astra allows chatting with users of many instant messaging and social networks, including Windows Live, ICQ, Skype (text only), Twitter and Facebook. Currently, Trillian Astra is available for Windows and iPhone, and there is a version that runs in a web browser. In addition, there are beta clients for Mac OS X, BlackBerry and now for android† Version 5 mainly improves social media capabilities. In addition, there is support for Foursquare and synchronization of data between the different clients is possible. In version 5.0 build 27 beta, conversation history synchronization has started and some bug fixes have been made.

Trillian for Windows 5.0 Build 27

After a busy November, we’re back with an update to Trillian for Windows, Build 27! Much of our server migration and upgrade process is now complete and we’re ready to release some of the code we’ve been working on. There are a few important pieces of information that go along with this build:

• Build 27 includes code that will test the history synchronization quietly; sync will not be exposed and visible to users! This is an important test that will allow us to simulate production load and make last minute fixes to the servers.
• During the test, no personal information or actual conversation history is being sent. You will have the choice to opt out of history synchronization completely once we officially unveil it; for now, randomly generated character arrays are being used to test server load.
• Unless something goes catastrophically wrong, the full functionality should be unveiled to users in the next few builds. Additionally, now that our server migration is complete, builds will be released more frequently again.

A handful of important bugs were also smashed in Build 27. We will be hard at work monitoring server load during this test and hope you enjoy the build!