Download Gaim 0.82

Gaim 0.82 has seen the light of day. 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. In version 0.82, according to the developers, all bugs found in 0.81 have been fixed. Also new is a so-called Security Vulnerability Index, a list of imperfections that will be used from now on. The changelog accompanying this release shows the following changes:

New Features:

• Ability to set available messages for AIM (Tools->Account Actions->Set Available Message…)
• Ability to specify a custom character set for messages sent to ICQ users and messages received from ICQ users
• Ability to edit your current away message (Rhett Robinson)
• Topics in the conversation window (not the topic field at the top) with URLs will now appear as links (Stu Tomlinson)
• File transfers appear in the file transfer window when they are initiated rather than when they begin transferring (Dave West)
• Instead of toggling slash commands on/off, you can now toggle passing through unknown slash commands on/off.

Bug Fixes:

• Joining a Jabber chat no longer causes a crash (Stu Tomlinson)
• Selecting a buddy icon for a brand new account no longer causes a crash
• Better file transfer error messages (Dave West)
• Remotely canceled file transfers in MSN are now noticed, so that we don’t accidentally cancel the file transfer and crash Gaim (Felipe Contreras)
• Protocols that don’t support joining chat rooms by name no longer allow chat rooms to be added to the buddy list (Felipe Contreras)
• Delayed messages and system messages no longer cause sound events to be triggered (Nathan Fredrickson)
• The chat invite button has a correct label (Stu Tomlinson)
• The system log should leak fewer file descriptors (Ka-Hing Cheung)
• Buddy list tooltips display in more appropriate positions when using multiple monitors (Dave West)
• Better parsing of URLs containing special characters
• All users are shown when joining a Yahoo! conference (Bleeter Yaluser)
• You now leave all Yahoo! conferences when you log out of Yahoo!
• Buddy Icon updating bug fixed (Felipe Contreras)