Download Trillian Astra 5.0 Build 28 Beta

Cerulean Studios has released a new beta release of version 5.0 of the instant messaging program Trillian Astra. Trillian Astra allows chatting with users of a variety of 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 28 beta we mainly find bug fixes.

Trillian for Windows: Fixes! (5.0 Build 28)

Build 28 has been released to testers. We’ve worked on fixing many bugs with message rendering (Skype, group chats, Yahoo ordering) and also made various improvements to tackle the CPU usage bug some of you have reported. There may be a handful of lingering CPU issues in this build so please let us know how it works for you. A batch of other bugs have been fixed for Build 28 as well.

The history servers have been holding up well and we’re hoping to move to our next phase of testing in 29 or 30. This will involve sending and receiving actual history data, although as the servers will still be in a testing mode we may reset them and purge data as necessary. When we move to the next step all users will be given the choice to opt-in to synchronized history or to leave it off and use the legacy system.