Adium Version History

You can find a list of older release's binaries and sources on the previous releases page.

Version 1.3.2 (10/9/2008)

SVN Revision: [25330]

• Updated to MSNp15 via libpurple (from MSNp12 via msn-pecan)
  • Display pictures on MSN now work again
  • Full offline messaging support
  • iTunes status (Now Playing) support
• The Custom Status window now shows your current status message when opened, making it easier to change your status without changing the status message
• Fixed contact visibility issues in 1.3 and 1.3.1 (#10917)
• Fixed frequent disconnections on the Yahoo! service (#11097)
• Fixed a crash when parsing DNS-lookup responses from certain routers
• Fixed 1-2 pixel overlap of contact list by its toolbar (#10074)
• Fixed contacts showing in incorrect group after combining them (#11033)
• Fixed problems when linkifying URLs that contained an unescaped % character (#11059)
• Fixed escaping of the ' and ? characters for IPv6 Addresses (#11031)
• Fixed MSN personal messages being set to the status (ie: away, busy) (#10814)
• Fixed OTR messages to use the display name rather than UID (#10070)
• Fixed 'Lips Are Sealed' emoticon in the Adiumy emoticon set (#10996)
• Added new Add Group Chat Bookmark and File Transfer icons (#11030)
• Fixed drop shadow in Stockholm and Gone Dark message styles (#9178, #9480)
• Fixed visual artifacts in Smooth Operator message style (#10101)

Version 1.3.1 (9/7/2008)

SVN Revision: [25133]

• Fixed import wizard failing during import of inline images (#10912)
• Fixed a crash when Adium tries to update an account password (#10792)
• Fixed show offline contacts not working when groups are disabled (#10420)
• Fixed messages for multiple MSN group chats showing up in the same chat (#1583)
• Fixed syslogd consuming resources due to invalid requests via Facebook (#10588)
• Fixed German Localization of „Eingabetaste“ in General Preferences (#10801)
• Fixed display issues Appearance Preferences (#10803)
• Fixed a security vulnerability discovered by the Zero Day Initiative
• Fixed a crash during DNS resolution when trying to connect to MSN (#10808)
• Fixed local user's Avatar not updating in open message windows after change (#10210)
• Fixed aliases changing to nicknames following sign-in (#10550)
• Fixed Facebook timing out when attempting to connect (#10718)
• Fixed spellcheck defaulting to systemwide default (#10752)
• Fixed offline bg color being mis-applied to metacontacts with online accounts (#10784)
• Fixed invisible dock icon continuously flapping its wings (#10786)
• Fixed contact inspector opening on wrong tab (#10825)
• Fixed a crash when using Sametime/Meanwhile (#10830)
• Fixed a crash when searching logs via the Transcript Viewer (#10866)
• Fixed "Connected: Offline" when MSN contact connects with no personal message (#10873)
• Fixed checkboxes jumping around in the status window (#10790)
• Existing logs are no longer world readable (#1834)
• Edges between multiple displays no longer trigger showing hidden contact list (#10204)
• Removed $$ emoticon (#10949)
• Update Danish, German, and Hungarian localizations

Version 1.3 (8/25/2008)

SVN Revision: [24946]

Major 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!

General Changes

• Improved management of contact and account icons:
  • Fixed setting “Use no icon” in personal preferences not updating with no icon (#7778)
  • Fixed images in Image Picker showing up too large (#8911)
  • Fixed Address Book icons not overriding user's icon when set to do so (#8260)
  • Fixed Address Book image being copied/overwriten every time (which caused troubles with Sync Services) (#9122)
  • Significant memory usage and performance improvements related to icons
• Fixed behavior which determines which contact in a combined contact to message (#9619)
• Added “Save opened chats when quitting” option to the General preferences (#8360)
• Added menu item for “Add Group Chat Bookmark” to the Contact menu (#8772)
• Improved the dialog when sending a message to a contact who appears offline (#9568)
• Choosing a status from a status menu which is already globally set will now present the state editor window
• Added option in the Advanced Status Prefs to change “Number of unread messages” to “Number of unread conversations” (for the Dock icon and Status Menu Item) (#8599)
• Fixed reconnect behavior in certain situations (#9355) (#9309)
• Fixed combined contacts with Bonjour accounts staying online (#9862)
• View menu now changes “Show” menu items to “Hide” and back again, instead of using check-marks (#4740)
• Fixed checking of account in the Add Contact window with only one account (#9871)
• Fixed empty space in the Window menu's list of open chats when using tabs (#9621)
• Fixed issue that could cause sounds to stop working when Adium was upgraded if a default sound set was in use
• Updated Zephyr Options preferences page (#9776)
• Keychain items now contain the name of their account (#7773) (#8777)
• The New Message prompt no longer requires specifying the source account for the new chat
• Fixed an issue which could make newlines disappear when copying and pasting from Safari, Word, and other applications in certain situations (#10474)
• Fixed duplication of newline characters in chat message history (#10496)
• %n, %d, and %t are no longer substituted in the middle of a word (#10500)
• Fixed many memory leaks (#10448, #10449, #10450, #10451, #10452, #10453, #10454, #10455, #10456, #10466, #10468, #10470)
• Improved baseline memory usage of Adium
• Updated default Xtra packages
  • Added Renkoo and Renkoo Naked message styles
  • Added Invisible and Busy Adiumy Dock icons (#3962)
  • Added blocked status icon to the iBubble set (#4383)
  • Added status icons for DND/Busy status (#8329)
  • Updated service icons for ICQ, Yahoo!, Gadu-Gadu, MySpace IM, Sametime, and QQ (#6338)
  • Updated MSN emoticons to include a more comprehensive default set (#3647)
• Added "MobileMe" service (#10399)
• Fixed storage of ordering within metacontact and groups in certain situations (#10028)
• Removed some invalid sender colors in message windows (#10219)
• Fixed moving a contact from one metacontact to another (#10188)
• Worked around a Firefox 3 problem with retrieving the current webpage's information. The bug is 427448.
• Fixed a crash when disconnecting if a Send Message action were applied to the "Contact No Longer Seen" event (#10181)
• Fixed issues with applescript and modifying statuses (#8809, #10118)
• Fixed 'go online with message' applescript command (#10082)
• Added a 'name' property for single-user chats (#8825)
• Fixed the contextual menu items for Address Book integration within the message window
• Added Italics support in the chat transcript viewer (#10086)
• Fixed problems with manually assigned address book cards and combined contacts
• Updated to libpurple 2.5.0

Contact List

• Combined contacts can now be expanded and collapsed in the contact list (#5545)
  • Contacts within a combined contact can now be reordered within the contact list
  • Dragging a contact to another group will remove it from the combined contact
  • Dragging a contact into an existing combined contact will add it to that combined contact
• Removed ability to drag groups to detach them, as many of you did that by accident
  • You must now right-click on them and choose “Detach from Window”
  • You can still drag and drop between detached groups
• Idle time display improvements
  • Added an “idle right, status below” option for idle and status message display in list layouts
  • “Size to Fit Horizontally” no longer ignores idle time when set to display beside the name (#1631)
• Group display improvements:
  • Changed Contact List to expand or collapse groups on the first mouse click
  • Changed group headers to show the number of contacts in the group on the right side when left-aligned, or the left side otherwise
  • Group bubbles now display at maximum width when using “Contact Bubbles (To Fit)” (#3366)
  • Groups now break up the alternation of contact row colors in the Contact List (#1127)
• Changed minimum opacity for the Contact List to 0% from 5% (#5104)
• Adium is now Psychic: Contacts which are typing a message to you without a chat open are displayed as “typing”
• Added “Blocked Contacts” to the set of contact list filters (“Hide Certain Contacts”) (#8045)
• Removed the empty white contact list when using the standard contact list window (#9445)
• Added ability to drag-and-drop URLs onto the Contact List (#8901)
• Added ability to drag-and-drop songs from iTunes onto the Contact List to send them as file transfers (#5114)
• Fixed contact list becoming super-glued to screen edges after resolution change (#9322)
• Pressing Enter with multiple selection in Contact List now opens a chat with all of the selected contacts, not just one (#9575)
• You can now expand multiple selected groups with the right arrow key, and collapse them with the left (#7540)
• Moving a contact from one group to another on one account will now move the same contact on all other accounts (#9209)
• Fixed display issues that would arise if you deleted the font that you were using for the Contact List (#6587)
• Fixed dragging the Contact List between vertically-stacked displays (#6637) (#7412)
• Fixed scroll bar momentarily appearing when buddy list un-hides (#7292)
• Contact List now glows in the dark
• Fixed hidden Contact List becoming inaccessible upon connecting another display (#8051)
• Groups with no contacts do not hide after detaching and re-attaching groups (#8829)
• Added a delay before showing a contact list which is hiding on screen edges (#6225)
• Fixed which information is displayed for combined contacts (#8730)
• Fixed Contact List tooltips breaking on launch (#7937)
• Fixed the clickable area of the Contact List being larger than it looked (#9738)
• Drag & Drop
  • Fixed drag & drop to the bottom of groups (#10257)
  • Greatly improved drag & drop aesthetics
  • Fixed persistent drag highlights after finishing a drag & drop operation (#10195)
  • We now recollapse items automatically expanded in the contact list during a drag & drop operation (#10254)
  • Fixed issues with contact list ordering, including a 10.4 bug in which contacts could not be ordered immediately below combined contacts (#10255)

Chats and Messages

• Multiple consecutive status messages in the message view will now only display the latest update for your account or your contact (#8904) (#8957)
• Added ⌘⌥⇠/⌘⌥⇢ (Firefox-style) tab switching shortcuts. (#9611)
• Clearing the message view
  • Added a “Clear Display” contextual menu item to the message view
  • Added a “/clear” command (like IRC clients have)
• Group chats
  • Added ability for message styles to look different for group chats (#8435) (#87)
  • Fixed group chat userlists not updating after waking from sleep (#9858)
  • Fixed slowness in joining large group chats (#9358)
  • Groupwise: Fixed duplicate messages in Groupwise conferences (#9838)
  • Yahoo!: Added sending of text attributes (color, font) in Yahoo! Group Chat (#7919)
• Fixed message windows losing saved position on Tiger (#9745)
• The contact information tooltip now hides when you begin typing into a message window (#9803)
• Added option to scale the message window background image (#7399)
• Made the “Send File” dialog a sheet, rather than a separate window (#5159)
• Added left/right swipe gestures to change tabs on multi-touch Macs (e.g., MacBook Air) (#9432)
• Adium now automatically aligns text in inputline based on writing direction (#9079)
• /me
  • Changed /me command to not alter the action text being sent (#8934)
  • Changed display of /me to be dependent on message view style
• Prevent closing tabs that are inactive (#7603)
• Fixed printing from the message view
• Fixed incorrect display of status messages (#7401)
• Fixed Font Panel for “Text Display” in Messages pane of Preferences not allowing changes (#7797)
• When switching message styles, the “Text display” field is now updated to the default font of the new style (#7766)
• Fixed consecutive message divider lines in Mockie message style (#8966)
• Fixed repetition of user icons in the Mockie message style (#662)

Status menu item

• Added controls for the status menu item to the Status section of the Advanced pane in Preferences
• Added “Options” submenu with some menu items that we removed in 1.2 (#9169)
• Moved Contacts submenu above Accounts submenu
• Made right-clicking the status menu item show the Contact List menu, for starting new chats (#8436)
• Fixed status menu item repositioning improperly when unread count was zero (#9502)

Events and Notifications

• Added new event type: “Name Mentioned” for when your name is said in a group chat (#1606)
• Added “Silence Growl” option for custom statuses (#7481)
• Fixed Growl notifications to use icons from the Address Book when you've set Adium that way in the Preferences (#9892)
• Fixed awkward nudge/buzz event text when sending (#9559)
• Updated Growl to 1.1.4. Adium will prompt you to automatically upgrade as appropriate.

Jabber/XMPP

• Fixed authentication on XMPP in cases where GSSAPI fails (#9492)
• Fixed bug where you couldn't join a group chat after trying and failing once (#1874; #7388)
• Fixed not updating the userlist for nickname changes in group chats (#479)
• Fixed bug that would allow you to try to message contacts from accounts that don't have the contact on their contact lists (#5152)
• Fixed offering to unregister GTalk accounts when you delete them (#9798)
• Fixed error when trying to log into Wildfire Jabber server (#9801)
• Fixed passwordless login on broken Jabber servers (#9748)
• Fixed a crash when finishing a file transfer (#8979)

AIM / ICQ

• Fixed redisplay of the away message when an away contact goes idle on AIM (#10056)
• AIM DirectConnect now respects the “automatically accept…” option in the File Transfer preferences
• Fixed an intermittent crash after sending an image via AIM Direct IM
• Fixed lengthy delay before sending messages after connecting an AIM or ICQ account with a large number of ICQ contacts on its contact list (#10350)

Encryption

• Update to libotr 3.1 (#7485)
  • Socialist Millionaire protocol is not yet functioning in Adium
• Fixed infinite loop caused by pasting rich text into an encrypted chat (#7960)
• Fixed infinite loop caused by messages that were too long for one message (#2528)
• Fixed per-user encryption settings not being set properly (#9366)
• Fixed inability to enable automatic encryption (#9193)

Chat transcripts

• Adium chat transcripts are now bundles. Third party software will need to be updated accordingly.
  • Adium now stores in-chat images (e.g. AIM DirectIM) in chat transcripts (#6537)
  • Added aliases in chat transcripts (#8613)
• Reduced time spent writing log files when sending or receiving a message, providing a significant performance boost in many settings (#9386)
• Added option to hide timestamps in transcript viewer (#8633)
• Added left/right and up/down swipe gestures for users of multi-touch Macs (e.g., MacBook Air) (#9432)
• Fixed combined contacts' transcripts for GTalk and .Mac chats not displaying within the combined contact (#9725)
• Fixed hang when opening the transcript viewer (#9722)
• Fixed one case where transcripts listed in the Transcript Viewer would have an empty Date column (#9950)
• Added a very small delay to changing which logs are displayed when your selection changes, making keyboard-based navigation much easier.
• Added display of the contact's name along with the alias in the transcript viewer

AppleScript

• Exposed mutabilityType of statuses to AppleScript (#7656)
• Exposed unread-messages count in AppleScript (#9925)
• Added ability to add contacts through AppleScript (#9128)
• Added ability to re-order contacts through AppleScript (#9127)
• Added ability to block contacts through AppleScript (#9875)
• Added ability to delete contacts through AppleScript (#9061)
• Added ability to list the contacts of a group, and find the group of a contact, through AppleScript (#9109)
• Added ability to toggle proxies on and off through AppleScript (#750)
• Added ability to get the account of a contact through AppleScript in Tiger (#8972)
• Fixed bug where, if you turned off Show Groups, some (most) contact group elements would be contacts, mixed in with the actual groups (#9131)
• Fixed Address Book plugins, which were broken in 1.2.x (#9879)
• Fixed %_adiumbuild in certain situations (#9472)

URL detection

• “B.Sc.” (Bachelor of Science) is no longer detected as a link (#7910) (#9955)
• Fixed actions (/me) that ended with URLs rendering the asterisk (*) as part of the link (#8459)
• Fixed linkification of enclosed URIs with trailing punctuation (#1031) (#9795)
• Fixed linkification of URIs with user/password information (#9796)
• Fixed linkification of IPv6 addresses (#7491)
• Fixed linkification of URLs containing underscores (#7959)
• Spotify URI hyperlink detection (#9200)

Address Book

• Fixed setting your Bonjour display name to the name on your Address Book “Me” card (#2855)
• Fixed “Overwrite Address Book images with contacts' icons” feature working sporadically (#4935)
• Fixed “Search in Address Book” not adding the contact on the correct service (#8256)
• Fixed ignorance of email address field when looking up names in Address Book for GTalk and MSN contacts (#9018)
• Fixed “Add to Address Book” causing Adium to lose the Address Book name information for all your contacts (#9303)
• We now respect the 'last name first' per-contact setting from the Address Book (#10327)

Crash fixes

• Fixed a crash when moving around groups in contact list or moving them in and out of it (#9447)
• Fixed a crash when the Adium User Profile window is shown at startup *and* a 3rd party plugin needs confirmation at startup (#9953)

Localization

• Added a Commonwealth English localization
• “Show x recent messages” (in the General pane of the Preferences) was translated as number of days, not number of messages, in Chinese (#9792)
• Provide separate strings for “Get Info” menu item and “Get Info” button (#8570)
• Added Italian-localized Dock-icon overlays for Away and Idle (#9975)
• Updated all localizations

Previous Version History

See PreviousVersionHistory for the version history from Adium 1.2.7 back to Adium X 0.50 (initial release).