Download Trillian Astra 5.3 Build 9 Beta

Cerulean Studios has released a new beta release of Trillian Astra version 5.3. This instant messaging program allows chatting with users of a variety of instant messaging and social networks, including Windows Live, ICQ, Skype (text only), Twitter, and Facebook. Trillian Astra is available for Windows, OS X, iOS, Android and BlackBerry. In addition, there is a version that runs in a web browser and can therefore be used anywhere.

Cerulean Studios indicated when version 5.2 was released that it would now come up with new versions faster, which means that fewer new features are introduced per release. In version 5.3 we find improvements with regard to group conversations and there is now also a plug-in that allows chatting during games. Furthermore, the program handles SSL certificates better and several small improvements have been made to make the program work better in Windows 8. Build 9 on the other hand only contains bug fixes.

crash

• Fix the avatar crash

game

• After opening astra group chat (message_morph) editbox stopped to work (ie it doesn’t allow to send any message)
• Don’t count informational messages as unread
• Fixed issue with DirectX 9 games using IDirect3DDevice9Ex interface in rendering stage
• Fixed issue with keyboard shortcuts
• Fixed issue with OpenGL (restoring original texture and program + removed some glDisable calls for some nVidia and ATI extensions)
• IRC messages double up
• Scrollbar shows up improperly on private IRC windows
• Shortcut key does not change in UI when changed in preferences
• Speed ​​improvements when joining large chat rooms

IRC

• Slow loading or large chat rooms
• Tab completion with does not work properly with spell check

Languages

• Translate the shortcut key in game preferences
• Update the language packs to 5.3

Preferences

• Autoloading of game plugin failed on certain systems
• Error when loading plugins page on 32 bit systems
• Plugin Settings with the same name may pick the wrong plugin
• Update the preferences section of game to add more functionality and look nicer

core

• Regression with TLS certificate checks for certain servers was causing a false warning dialog to appear