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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Coming in Adium 1.2

Adium 1.2, our next major goal, is going to be a crazy awesome release. In the last two days we've finished the initial merges of our Google Summer of Code 2007 students' efforts; it'll be some time and effort before the development trunk of Adium is stable and close to a release with all these incoming changes, but it'll be well worth it. The Summer of Code was a huge success:

Andy Monitzer made many improvements to libpurple's XMPP/Jabber support, benefiting not only Adium, but also Pidgin and Finch.

Erich Kreutzer modernized, fixed, and expanded Adium's Bonjour support, implementing file transfer in the process.

Erik Beerepoot worked on multi-user conferencing in Adium, making good strides toward a more full-featured, shiny group chat experience.

Matt Handley greatly expanded Adium's AppleScript support; it will now be possible to control Adium easily via AppleScript, paving the way to even more great user content and control customizability.

Andre Cohen implemented snapping / detachable groups which let you detach groups from the contact list into free-floating windows

In addition, Adium 1.2 will utilize libpurple 2.2.0, which will bring a number of improvements, most notably the results of a Google Summer of Code project for Pidgin by Jeff Connelly which has added MySpaceIM support.

Join us in improving Adium! Read Contributing To Adium to learn how you can help :)

Labels: AppleScript, Bonjour, ContactList, GroupChat, GSoC, GSoC2007, Jabber, XMPP

# posted by Evan Schoenberg at 4:15 PM

Comments:

Any chance for a beta for those of us who like to live on the edge? :)

# posted by

Alan : 4:51 PM

If you like to live on the edge, try compiling from source (http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/GettingAdiumSource) and becoming one of our testers! Hang out on #adium on irc.freenode.net and help us report issues you find.

It's an easy way to join our community, but remember that compiling yourself means that you *could* lose your logs/contacts/harddisk/puppy, so make sure you've got backups!

# posted by

Colin Barrett : 7:37 PM

Will the XMPP/Jabber improvement mean that a plugin to Twitter could be in the future?

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:42 PM

In what way is Twitter related to XMPP?

# posted by

Andreas Monitzer : 10:11 PM

I don't think a plugin for Twitter is necessary as i believe it already supports XMPP (and other protocols).

The following article just popped up in the Planet Jabber feed about Twitter, Jaiku and Plugoo:

http://blog.bluendo.com/ff/which-interoperability

The author seems to believe that Jaiku is the one with more potential due to it's XMPP exclusivity. I don't have an opinion one way or the other as i've never seen the point in such services.

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:41 AM

I am pleased to hear about all the goodies to come! I also find it amusing, in a good way, that Adium will have (well, implemented with libpurple) MyspaceIM support even before MyspaceIM actually has a Mac client (they have yet to release one, and I doubt they will anytime soon).
While MyspaceIM might not be the next big hit, with Adium's parental controls (to come?) and already implemented ways to log and control things, MyspaceIM will be safer for the youngsters to use via Adium.

With all that said, way to go on the new goodies and I wish Google Summer of Coding was year-round, so we could get these things more often :)

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:47 AM

Myspace has an IM wt..... Not like I would use it but I never would of thought mypsace had its own im. I guess it's kinda cool to add mypsace to Adium as it make adium more attractive to a whole new audience.
Great work, I'm waiting for adium to tell me there is a beta waiting to be donwloaded. Peace

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:12 AM

katlady81 Google summer of code is year round. It just depends on if adium gets accepted or not, I don' see a reason why It wouldn't

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:15 AM

Correction, Google Summer of Code is yearly not year round. Sorry I understand what you were saying now

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:03 AM

Any chance to see gpg/pgp encryption support like psi or gajim have?

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:36 PM

Anonymous: There's a ticket for PGP support. Our opinion is that OTR is more secure than PGP for IM.

# posted by

Peter Hosey : 6:52 PM

Any news on MSN MSNP14 Support?

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:06 PM

Does this new version finally fix the login issues re: QQ? If so, thank you! If there is a fix for 1.1.2 re: QQ login issues, please help!!! Email me at adam.schokora@gmail.com

thanks,

AjS

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:18 AM

video video video... please. Make it work with isight camera and MB Pro and MacBook.

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:20 PM

The only thing missing from Adium making it the ultimate is IM forwarding via port 80 - I use trillian with imeverywhere in windows and it's PERFECT. Oh how I wish adium could do this via an addon or native. With imeverywhere and trillian, I can access my home IMs from my work machine via my home machine's IP on port 80. It's awesome. Any hope for adium ever doing this?

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:52 PM

again no improvements on msn
ty adium dev freaks

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:35 AM

To everyone bitching about these guys not doing "XX..." grow up. This is FREE software. All of them are volunteers and are doing us a favor by working on it at all. If it weren't for them you guys wouldn't have anything to complain about in the first place. How bout just being happy that they're working on things rather than crying because they haven't done enough. Besides, if you pay any attention you'd know that they're working on most of that stuff anyway.

Thanks guys for all your hard work! Keep it up!!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:14 PM

again someone who doesn't understand that Adium developers are not full time libpurple developers and therefore have to wait somewhat for improvements to be made
ty anonymous, impatient complainer who doesn't know how to read... freak

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:17 PM

At the MSN comment, hopefully the MSNP14 branch in libpurple will windup quickly that it can be added to Adium for the release after this one :).

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:53 PM

i love you devs :-*

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:48 PM

You would be better make ICQ away messages to work: it just sucks ...

No ICQ user can read my away messages -.-

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:36 PM

any chance of custom status message implementation. its really a disadvantage not being able to see a persons custom message status.

# posted by

Unknown : 9:12 PM

Ohh please i want a beta. i cant use adium at school now because the http feature is bugged :(

# posted by

Unknown : 10:03 AM

MSNP14 milestone was finished today in libpurple, any chance we see it soon in Adium?

# posted by

P. : 10:42 AM

that would be great... how mucho do you think it will take to see MSNP14 on Adium?

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:12 PM

Once it's in a libpurple release, it should follow in the next Adium release, barring unforseen problems. 1.1.3 won't have it, 1.2 almost certainly will.

# posted by

David Smith : 1:46 AM

MSN VIDEO!! MSN VIDEO!! Please, that's the only thing Adium is missing right now....

MSN VIDEO!! MSN VIDEO!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:20 PM

@jp You know I want video support just as much as the next but this is getting tiresome now. If I was one of the devs for Adium, and ever blog post contains some punk that keeps writing, video please add video, I would keep holding off the adding of video as I am sick of hearing it. No matter how many times we/they say it's comming its always the same comment, please add video blah. It's comming just shup up already.

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:46 PM

Btw, 'MSN VIDEO!! MSN VIDEO!! ' doesn't help either

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:47 PM

I would like a text chat client a'la gaim-text (or whatever its new name
is). I cannnot chat in the office
with the beautiful adium, it must be
an application going through ssh (so
I can use my home network) and should not look like a chat program at ALL.
Best is it would look like emacs, so
boss thinks you are doing something
important. I guess many of us should
have that "problem" in the office!?!?!

THANKS

-D

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:50 PM

Alot of you don't seem to realize how complicated it is to implement video/talk to AIM, MSN or the GTalk protocols. It's not something that can be done in a matter of say 2 or 3 months, especially with a team that's doing this on their free time and obviously have more important things on their plates like families, friends and work. I'll spare you the technical details, but you folks really need to stop the complaining and repetitive requests. They get the point.

# posted by

name : 11:14 PM

Hey, Im generally curious....is the option to open your hotmail inbox supposed to work? thanks.

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:10 PM

I would really like it if the message windows could be skinned the same way that the contact lists can be :)

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:03 AM

Para cuando el Skype en Adium?

De todos modos se merecen un aplauso a este programon! ;)

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:53 AM

irc would be great
still dont understand why adium has no irc since pidgin has is since years

# posted by

Nicoduck : 1:46 PM

I'd like to request some features (maybe in 1.2 or in the future): working "block" function (doesn't work on ICQ accounts), working account picture and than maybe audio/video chat. Thank you for your great work!

# posted by

Dave : 9:49 AM

please, please, please, please, please...iSight support...especially on Macbook and Macbook Pro

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:57 PM

@ethan

Man it's coming read the FAQ anyways I tried asking where video would be coming from for adium. It's either coming from libpurple or chatkit. I asked in Irc today but was ignored for steak sandwiches and hoogies. Bummer

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:06 PM