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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Adium X 0.88

I didn't expect this release to be a big deal... but it turned into one, at least for certain cohorts.

Adium X 0.88 is a Universal binary, running natively on PPC Macs with OS X 10.2.7 or later and Intel Macs running OS X 10.4.0 or later. That's a Big Deal for you early adopters out there, since Macworld's recent benchmarking indicates that native applications may have as much as a 100% speed advantage over applications running in Rosetta.

We've fixed one of our longest-standing bugs ([#31]), a buglet rooted in Gaim code which was preventing MSN buddy icons (avatars) from updating properly. Autoconnection when waking from sleep, another longtime headache for certain users, should also be improved (and other common complaints about connectivity -- particularly global status changes -- are already fixed on the still-progressing-awesomely Adium 1.0 codebase). A number of other crashes and aesthetic bugs have been corrected, too; check out the Version History for all the details.

Fnally, Adium 0.88 welcomes our friends down under to the community with an Australian English localization.

Interested in getting involved with Adium? Please take a look at the Support & Development tab and browse the ticket system; we're always happy to review patches fixing bugs and implementing features (both those which have been requested and those which are original enhancement ideas). There's also the donate link if you're so inclined, and if you're looking for fantastic hosting please don't forget our generous sponsors, Network Redux (our website host), CacheFly (our download host), and Penguin Militia Networks (our Trac and Subversion host).

Enjoy! :)

# posted by Evan Schoenberg at 5:27 PM

Comments:

Thank You very much for the Universal Binary. I'm most happy that Rosetta doesn't have to use as much Memory.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:05 PM

Um... Badges? There are none!

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:29 PM

The badging project is one of many enhancements that won't be released until Adium 1.0, sorry :)

# posted by

Evan Schoenberg : 6:50 PM

Yay! Australian English! :D

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:40 PM

I am looking for a host, preferably fantastic, and I'm wondering what sort of uptime you get from Network Redux?

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:13 PM

Avatars are still not updating properly for me :(

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:31 PM

thank u very much for ur time and efforts...thumbs up for the adiumx team!

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:07 AM

Odd mathematics? If Rosetta applications run at 50% the speed of native applications, then the native applications runs at double the speed of those emulated under Rosetta: 100%.

Thanks for a wonderful app!

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:45 AM

Thanks for the great update! =D

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:44 AM

I'd like to point out a wrong translation in the Dutch version: where you can choose where to place the status icons/avatars/service symbols, the option "left" is wrongly translated to "is weggegaan", it should be "links" instead :)
not a big issue though :)

Thanks a lot for a far better im stystem than microsoft messenger! ^^
I <3 Adium!

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:57 AM

Thanks for the universal binary!

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:08 AM

thanks for the update, what is different in the australian localisation as opposed to the british? (not that this aussie is complaining :P)

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:59 AM

I used Adium for a long time until file transfers made me switch back to (shudder) AIM. I recently downloaded .88 and I'm VERY impressed with it! Kudos for a great, Mac OS X-esque app!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:04 AM

Awesome update, especially if the buddy icons are indeed updating!

*Sacrifices a goat to the Adium dev-gods*

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:26 AM

Nice nice!! But.. as there's always _something_ to complain about... Sizes increase singificantly with universal binaries, apps easily get 1 1/2 as big, it seems. Now, 25 MB for a IM client is BIG in my opinion. Is there no way to trim it down? Mac apps are big anyway compared to Windows apps (and Linux apps with al their dynamic/shared libs).

No harm intended, just a remark :) Thank for a great app!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:30 AM

@Lorin Renodeyn

I've fixed this problem, but I guess Evan hasn't applied it to the source yet.

Still working on improving the Dutch localization ;)

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:26 AM

oh, ok ^^
I'm already very happy that there's a dutch flavour :)
As far as i noticed all other translations were fine ^^
I'm always willing to help you guys translate if that would be necessary. Dutch is my mother tongue :)

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:55 AM

Next stop Adium 1.0!!! Will there be a beta out for it soon?

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:08 PM

What is size difference between a PPC version, intel version, and a universal version? Maybe it would be better to create two versions of Adium-one for intel and one for PPC.

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:54 PM

niklas, you're right -- complete mental shutdown. Fixed.

As far as the size increases of a Universal binary, we unfortunately won't be offerring multiple downloads in the near future. It's a cost of doing business in the modern OS X world that binaries are of increasing size. For the record: Going Universal added 2 MB to the download size and about 5.5 MB on disk.

# posted by

Evan Schoenberg : 12:15 AM

Thanks for the Aussie translation mate.

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:48 PM

Just wondering why exactly Adium can't offer a separate PPC and Intel version of Adium each compiled for the respective platform?? Why is this such a no-no??

I'm sure most Adium users will be aware if their have a PPC or Intel CPU inside their Mac.

Besides it will save Adium bandwidth cost from everyone downloading that extra 2 MB of Intel code useless to 95% of Mac users.

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:07 AM

Just throw the Adium Application File in TrimTheFat utility...
http://homepage.mac.com/gweston/download.html

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:39 AM

Until it supports screen captures on the Mac, it just isn't as useful as iChat.

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:41 PM

Wow, this is an awesome update. Especially the MSN bugfix.

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:07 PM

anybody else who still runs panther having a problem with .88 freezing before ever getting started? I can't make it work for the life of me.

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:34 PM

Hrm... Adium still seems to refuse to reconnect to servers sometimes. Generally the only way to get it to connect (after sleep or a network location change) is to click on each account and tell it to connect. Generally I find it quicker to Quit and re-launch.

Overall tho, Adium is great. By far the best IM client available for Mac OS today.

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:44 AM

@JWB

I have the same problem, Adium refuses to send messages (i'm getting an connection-error) especially when i just woke my Mac from sleep. This problem keeps accuring until I relaunch Adium.

The strange part is that this problem first showed up after the update to 0.88 final (the beta didn't sport this bug).

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:57 AM

I am experiencing the same problem as above. It seems i have to login out and in several times to get it to work correctly.

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:24 PM

Same here.. and I get the same reports from everyone else that I know who uses Adium!

This should get the highest priority because it is really really annoying!

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:17 PM

#2834 for the connection error issue.

# posted by

Evan Schoenberg : 1:08 PM

why can't you change the font color in your profile info

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:16 PM

why can't you change the font color in your profile info

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:16 PM

Is there any word on webcam support for MSN?

I also still dont' see all icons updating that well.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:34 PM

All support should either go to:
1. Trac, or
2. The Forums

# posted by

Takumi : 9:02 PM

This release is crashing every now and then.. incredible annoying.

besides that, a great msn client!

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:47 PM

I love this program. A big issue I am finding is that the invisible status icon does not show me as invisible on AIM chat. People see me as being available. I saw someone post this same issue about 8 months ago, but there was no response. Any workaround for this?

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:10 PM

Excellent job, astounding job!

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:10 AM