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August 26, 2008

Adium X Reaches 1.3

Adium, the open source instant message chat client with support for multiple programs (including AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo! Google Talk, Bonjour, etc.) has been updated to version 1.3.

The new version, a 20.8 megabyte download, sports the following major fixes and changes:

Complete redesign of the Contact Inspector (formerly the Get Info Window) (#1148).

Complete interface overhaul (#1148, #9373).

Profiles for combined contacts now display in a unified fashion.

Combined contacts' contents are now managed in the contact list; they automatically expand in the contact list when inspected.

Increased buddy info retrieval speed.

Fixed management of serverside group associations from the Contact Inspector (#1872).

Added Facebook Chat service to Adium (#9607).

Known limitation: logging into Facebook Chat via Adium will log you out of the Facebook website.

Added a search field to the Standard Contact List window (#6444). This can be accessed either from the Edit menu (⌘F) or by blindly typing into contact list (the previously-existing type-ahead find feature)..

Switched to MSN-Pecan, a new MSN library for libpurple. Notable changes with MSN-Pecan:
Support for personal messages
Improved error handling for networking issues
Improved http method support
Major performance improvements, most notable when signing on multiple accounts simultaneously and when chatting while other applications are making heavy use of your hard drive.

Tons of improvements and fixes, big and small - see below for all the details!.

For the full list of changes, click here.

Adium X is available for free and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to run. The program functions as a Universal Binary and runs at native speeds on both PowerPC and Intel-based hardware.

If you've tried the new build and have any feedback, positive or negative, let us know in the comments or forums.

Posted by chrisbarylick at August 26, 2008 8:00 AM
Category: Software
Tags: 1.3, 10.4, Adium, AOL Instant Messenger, Apple, Bonjour, bug, fix, Google Talk, ICQ, Intel, Jabber, Mac, MSN, OS X, PowerPC, update, Yahoo
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