Download Adium X 1.4 Beta 4

The people behind the instant messaging program Adium X have released the fourth beta version of the 1.4 series. The new version is here as a dmg file for Mac OS X. The 1.4 branch features several major improvements. For example, the program supports the protocols of irc and Twitter. In addition, version 1.4 includes libpurple 2.6.0 and better support for the MSN and XMPP protocols. The full list of improvements in the 1.4 release over the 1.3.4 branch can be found here this page be read; below are the changes made in beta 4 only:

General

• Changed behavior for account options: a lot were only changing when reconnecting, now all that are able to (ie, non-connect options) take effect immediately.
• Added “Idle And Away” as a possible status icon pack item to use for contacts. (#872)
• Moved the Status Menu Item and Dock preferences to a new “Message Alerts” advanced preference, from “Status” and “Messages”.
• Changed the wording for the “only count the number of highlights/mentions in the dock/status menu item” in Message Alerts. (#12080)
• Changed the status icon for group chats to be Available when joined, and Offline when parted. (#12064)
• Fixed idle time not being sent to the server.
• Fixed dragging and dropping emoticon packs to reorder them. (#12099)
• Fixed removing contacts when groups are disabled or the contact is in the offline group. (#12136)
• Fixed the stepper values ​​in the Status preferences and Status Edit window always starting at 10. (#12188)
• Fixed the voiceover for certain fields in the authorization requests window.

Updated Libpurple

• Fixed a security issue where “Require SSL/TLS” for XMPP was being ignored. (#11822)
• Fixed being disconnected from MSN when adding/removing contacts. (#11978)
• Proxy information is no longer saved in accounts.xml (#11838)
• Updated the default Yahoo! server.