Download Adium X 1.2

Yesterday version 1.2 of Adium X was released. Adium X is a multi-protocol instant messaging program for Mac OS X that can connect to the networks of Jabber, ICQ, .NET Messenger Service, and Bonjour, among others. A large number of changes have been made in version 1.2. As many as 188 tickets with feature requests or bug reports were closed during development. Some of the most significant changes include improved account management capabilities and major improvements to Jabber support, group chat (conferencing), and localization (translation). The support for MSN personal messages was unfortunately not finished in time. This is still being worked on and will be added in a future release. More information about this release is in this post can be found on the Adium blog. The changelog for version 1.2 looks like this:

Changes in Adium X version 1.2:

• Improved Group Chat interface
  • Improved the user list
  • Implemented chat bookmarks in the contact list
  • Added separate events for messages received in group chats
  • Added an event for chat invitations
  • Added Drag & Drop contact invitations
  • The Tab key now autocompletes names in group chats
  • Various minor bug fixes
• Improved Bonjour support
  • Implemented file transfer support
  • Fixed improper display of Bonjour contacts after disconnecting
  • Fixed sending messages with line breaks
  • Fixed a crash when messaging invalid contacts
  • Major improvements to reliability and performance
  • Modernized Bonjour for Mac OS X 10.4+
  • Various minor bug fixes
• Improved XMPP (Jabber) support
  • Fixed importing of groups
  • Added support for fields-based dialogues, which allows many serverside functions to work
  • Added support for server and contact actions
  • Added SSL certificate verification and trust control
  • Improved new account registration
  • Fixed connectivity to servers which require GSSAPI/Kerberos 5 and some other forms of authentication via SASL and which require CRAM-MD5 via jabber:iq:auth
  • XMPP can now broadcast information about the current iTunes track
  • Fixed a long-standing crash after disconnecting from a server which uses SSL
  • Rewrote almost all of Applescript support, fixing numerous problems and expanding its capabilities
  • Implemented detachable Contact List groups (drag a group off the contact list to create a free-floating window). Known issue: Detached contact lists don’t play as nicely as we would like with Spaces
• Improved Account Preferences
  • You can now right-click on accounts (or multiple accounts) to quickly control them or their status
  • An account’s current connection step (such as “Sending Password”) or error message (such as “Invalid password”) are displayed under the account name
• Improved Status Menu Item
  • New “Contacts” Menu (also quickly accessible by holding option when clicking on the status item)
  • General menu cleanup, including using a buddy’s icon instead of status for open chats
  • The “show badge” option for Xtras is now a user-settable option in the advanced preferences
  • Added a “flash when there are unread messages” option to the advanced preferences
  • Added a colorful “Adiumy Flashy” icon set
  • With badging enabled, one or more accounts attempting to reconnect will badge an offline icon onto the available icon
• Improved Reconnect Behavior
  • Added a global “Connect All Accounts” to the file menu, which connects all enabled and offline accounts
  • Accounts will now attempt to reconnect indefinitely. You can view the reconnect status in the Accounts preferences
  • When an account is offline because of a network being unavailable, it will display “Network Offline” in the Accounts preferences
  • Disconnection errors will no longer produce an error message unless it’s unable to reconnect (rate limiting, invalid password, etc)
• Added options for showing/hiding mobile contacts and idle contacts as could be done with offline contacts previously
• Mobile contacts can now have a customized color in the contact list
• Fixed pixelated contact icon appearance in Mac OS X 10.5
• (Sametime) Fixed Sametime login to servers which are configured to prevent ‘old’ clients from connecting. Be sure to enable the ‘Hide Client Identity’ account option.
• Fixed a condition in which a chat window would not appear after Adium had been hidden when a new message was received
• Simplified chat window titles
• Fixed erroneous display of an ‘Arrange in Front’ menu item in the Window menu in 10.5
• Added drag & drop of contacts to places besides the contact list
• The status message is now displayed by Growl notifications for status changes
• Added an option to change status when a screensaver is activated
• Added options for update checking to the General preferences
• Added an option to show always show a contact in the contact list regardless of status (offline, idle, etc.)
• The Contact List is now accessible via VoiceOver
• Chats now display a message when your account goes offline or online
• Improved handling of grammar checking across multiple windows
• Improved quit confirmation and added an advanced preference to control it
• Error dialogs and authorization windows no longer steal focus
• Disabled javascript: urls in the message view, fixing a potential security concern
• Added ‘First Last Initial’ as an option for names from the Address Book
• Improved first-run experience when using services which require a server to be specified
• Empty status messages are no longer forced to read the status’s name
• The ‘New Email’ dialogue can now launch Mail.app rather than loading a webpage
• Fixed a crash which could occur during file transfers
• Re-added the ability to customize the number of lines of history to show in new chats
• Fixed bugs in the Stockholm and Smooth Operator message styles
• Sametime: Fixed contact presence and file transfer problems with Sametime on recent server versions
• Restored ignoring Exposé when the contact list is set to below other windows on 10.4; this behavior breaks Spaces so can not be done on 10.5.
• Improved how Spotlight displays chat transcripts on 10.4 (Known issue: 10.5 is still ignoring Spotlight results from chat transcripts because they are within ~/Library)
• Fixed linkification of single-world domain names
• Fixed retention of the size of the text entry area in chat windows
• Fixed rejoining AIM group chats with spaces in their names
• Improved the New Message dialogue
• Fixed a leak after a contact requests authorization
• Updated Adiumy icons to 512×512 for Leopard
• Updated to libpurple 2.3.1
• Got David a gerbil
• Major localization updates:
  • Catalan
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • English
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • English (Australian)
  • Finnish
  • French
  • French Canadian
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Norwegian
  • polish
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish

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