Noteworthy in this release are that 58 bullet points are in the ChangeLog (not counting the headers for libpurple, Pidgin, Finch, and the protocols) and 85 tickets were closed, 40 of which were marked in trac as patches. Also of note is the insane amount of work Mark Doliner put into our MSN and MySpace plugins, which should resolve a number of crashes and the MySpace "doesn't sign off" issue.
A few big items to summarize:
- Mark did massive code cleanup in MSN
- Mark fixed a number of shortcomings in the MySpace IM protocol as well as doing code cleanup.
- We accepted a ton of patches.
- ICQ typing notifications should work for some third-party clients now.
- XMPP resources now default to the empty string, causing modern servers to assign us a resource via a bind. In the event of an ancient server, such as the one DreamHost runs, we will detect the lack of this capability and enforce the default "Home" resource if a user hasn't set a resource.
- XMPP resources can now include __HOSTNAME__ as a special token that will be replaced with the hostname of the machine being used. For example, if I run Pidgin on my MacBook and configure the resource on an XMPP account to be __HOSTNAME__, the resource sent to the server will be "macbook", since this is the hostname of my MacBook.
- Some long-outstanding patches have been applied for Gadu-Gadu, implementing IM images.
- Apply some patches for Zephyr, enabling autoreply when away to emulate zaway and some bugs with the 'use tzc' option.
- We no longer get certificate errors for rsi.hotmail.com when logging into MSN and retrieving offline messages.
- Many, many other things best read about in the ChangeLog.
