Download Gaim 0.81

Version 0.81 of Gaim has been released on Source Forge. Gaim is an open source and cross platform instant messenger that allows you to chat over the networks of AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. Only the version for Linux has been updated, the latest version for Windows is still 0.80. According to the developers, there are not a lot of new features, but there are no fewer than 240 bugs fixed. But since a changelog with 240 points is too long, the following summary will suffice:

New Features:

• The autorecon plugin will somewhat remember state information(Yosef Radchenko)
• Visual display of ops/voice/halfops/so on in Chats (Stu Tomlinson)
• Tab completion of slash commands in Chats (Stu Tomlinson)
• gaim-remote can now manipulate status (István Váradi)
• The text messages of Yahoo Audibles are now displayed, although the audio and graphics are not.
• Yahoo! away messages can be 255 characters long now

Bug Fixes:

• Gadu-Gadu should connect again (Andrew Wellington)
• Novell fixes (Mike Stoddard or Novell):
  • Fixed reconnect crash
  • Fixed duplicate root folder bug
  • Fixed bug with folder ordering (on a first time login folders were being added in reverse order).
• Use ISO date format for the system log (Eduardo Pérez)
• Long buddy lists with irc should cause flooding disconnects less (Stu Tomlinson)
• Better smiley substitution
• Fix a crash related to auto-expanding contacts at the bottom of buddy lists
• Fix a crash on Solaris when changing or viewing information for your AIM account (Format Screen Name, Change Email Address, etc.)
• HTML in OSCAR buddy comments is now escaped (and not rendered)
• Fix a crash when dragging a screen name to a conversation window for that screen name
• User-requested new conversation windows are now always given focus
• Pasting HTML into Gaim from certain sources no longer results in the spaces between some words being removed
• The alias of a contact is now displayed in more places when the alias of a buddy is not set
• .gaimrc is no longer imported
• Prevent a crash if you sign off and try to dequeue messages from the away dialog (Kevin Stange)
• Prevent a possible crash if gaim_gtkconv_write_conv is called with who as NULL (Kevin Stange)
• Prevent (null) or an empty string from being logged as the sender’s name if the sender no longer has an alias because the account is signed off (Kevin Stange)
• The auto-reconnect plugin will no longer attempt to reconnect an MSN account if you were disconnected because you signed on from another location (Stu Tomlinson)
• On Solaris, chatting in IRC using the UTF-8 charset no longer gives a “conversion failed” error for every message (Arvind Samptur)
• ICQ offline messages should have the correct timestamp (Dave West)[break]